Amazing what you can find when you can sleep

[depotdoug]

Scientists find new organ in throat while testing for prostate cancer

news.sky.com/story/scientis...

[Tall_Allen]

They found it because of PSMA PET scans.

[depotdoug in reply to Tall_Allen]

Understand. Thought medical biology is or was through finding human organs or different types of anatomy.

I should inquire about that from my 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET scan 08/01/2019.

[Tall_Allen in reply to depotdoug]

It depends on what you call "an organ." Do a smattering of differentiated cells that fulfill a different purpose from their neighbors constitute an organ? Last year, the organ du jour was the connective tissue between organs and dermal layers.

[depotdoug in reply to Tall_Allen]

Yes, similar to Lymph nodes i believe. Those body parts serve specific functions like filtering and immune system control, the bit i think I've read. So therefore are lymph nodes with many, many locations in our bodies classified as a organ or a functional system? That subject is way above my small medical, biological knowledge level. It is interesting research though.

[j-o-h-n]

Ahhhhhh DEEP THROAT.....

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Thursday 10/22/2020 7:22 PM DST

[depotdoug in reply to j-o-h-n]

J-o-h-n Facts: A throat organ.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymph...