List_of_organs_of_the_human_body

List of organs of the human body

List of organs of the human body

A list of organs in the human body


This article contains a list of organs of the human body. It is widely believed that there are 79 organs (this number goes up if you count each bone and muscle as an organ on their own, which is becoming more common practice to do[1][2]); however, there is no universal standard definition of what constitutes an organ, and some tissue groups' status as one is debated.[3] Since there is no single standard definition of what an organ is, the number of organs varies depending on how one defines an organ. For example, this list contains more than 79 organs (about ~103).[vague]

The list below is not comprehensive, as it is still not clear which definition of an organ is used for all the organs in the list.

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Public domain This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)


References

  1. "Structure of Skeletal Muscle | SEER Training". training.seer.cancer.gov. Retrieved 2023-05-20.
  2. Cowan, Paul T.; Kahai, Preet (2023), "Anatomy, Bones", StatPearls, Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing, PMID 30725884, retrieved 2023-05-20
  3. Engel, Carl. "We Got The Mesentery News All Wrong". Discover. Retrieved 7 January 2017.

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