An article in the October 2013 Journal of Anatomy describes a "new" ligament in the human knee (its existence was postulated in 1879 but apparently it was never confirmed).
I find this really surprising. Surely plenty of doctors, surgeons, pathologists, med students doing dissections, etc. have observed this ligament over the past 150 years? And surely at least one of them poked it and said "Hey, what's this thing called?" I mean, it's a macroscopic feature-- it is, quite literally, something that a trauma surgeon could point to and say "I don't know what this is but I'm pretty sure it shouldn't be sticking out of this injured patient's leg."
Very neat, but surprising.
I find this really surprising. Surely plenty of doctors, surgeons, pathologists, med students doing dissections, etc. have observed this ligament over the past 150 years? And surely at least one of them poked it and said "Hey, what's this thing called?" I mean, it's a macroscopic feature-- it is, quite literally, something that a trauma surgeon could point to and say "I don't know what this is but I'm pretty sure it shouldn't be sticking out of this injured patient's leg."
Very neat, but surprising.
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