In their recent publication in the Oxford University Press' Journal of Medicine, a group of scientists from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences has started a critical discussion by proposing new categories for the newly discovered human body parts. Among the new discoveries is also the recently proposed human organ— Mesentery, discovered by the same group of scientists. In 2016, a group of Irish scientists had proposed the mesentery as a new organ in human body based on the discovery of new details for this already known body part and its role in human health and diseases.
Mesentery was earlier known to provide support to the gut and hold it to the abdominal walls hence was considered as the appendages of the intestine. In the current publication, the Indian group of doctors has stressed upon the requirement of a scientific body that can set criterion to name newly discovered…