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Article requests : Link each organ to the Tissues that they are made of. As well as to the list of thier components(eg. muscles to list of skeletal muscles in the human body)
Assess : Clarify which defintion of what an organ is, is used in this article
Categorization : Clarify which defintion of what an organ system is is used in this article. As well as which groups make snese to use around what organs.
Cleanup : Make sure that 'only' all the organs which suit the defitintions agreed upon is in the list. but also write a small section about the organs which are not included and the ambeguity and discussion that there is around them.
Done. I created headings for each system as this makes the list more easily navegable and replaced the outdated Gray's Anatomy terms for the common synonyms in Terminologia Anatomica. There's a lot to be done though, I tried to add some images for each system but they didn't fit the article. I hope other editors can sort this out, as this is quite an important and viewed article. --Tilifa Ocaufa (talk) 03:40, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
right now there is two lists, with the same information. The first one seems a bit more incomplete then the second one? Do we want to keep it this way? is the first one more easily navigable then the second one?
The main purpose of this article is as a kind of index of other articles no? - a completet overview of all organs, As well as making general patterns that different people apply to have an overview of the human body
The idea of having more lists or tables are not bad. Maybe we could have 3 different? based on the people who would generally look at this page and what kind of an overview they might be desiring?
(first)A general one: for; people trying to understand the connection between everyday terms and how we actuelly split up the body medically and biologically, a structure like
For the clinical diagnostic one maybe the easit is if we kind make a list of test materials that can be taken from the human body, then show which clinical labs they can be used in and then make another list under: List of medical tests which we cross reference, where one can see all the medical analysis which can be preformed on each test. In that way we can almost create a kind of menu card of what tests can be done. Here are all the test materials which I can remeber on top of my head, there are properly between 1500-3000 test which a modern hospital can typically perform on these, no? - so there is a lot for List of medical tests to catch up with. In my head the simplest way fo making an easy overview is to start from the material which is tested no? maybe it needs some other categories then the following, but the following might be a start? - a lot of these probes can be taken at multiple places in the body so it is hard to figure out how best to link them to organs, but beeing able to navigate easily between the two would make a lot of things easier, I think we have to keep thinking of it as a kind of menu card for physicians, no?
Organ
Tissue
Test Material
Multiple locations
Blood
Blood, Serum, Capillary blood, Whole blood without anticoagulant and EDTA stabilised blood, Serum, For pregnant women: Plasma can be used, Serum, protected from light,Citrate stabilised blood in SR tube, EDTA blood, EDTA stabilised whole blood ,EDTA stabilised blood, EDTA plasma,Plasma,K-oxalate plasma with Na-fluoride, Serum, blood sample collected in tube without additives, Citrate plasma, Citrate stabilised blood, Heparin plasma,Heparin plasma with/without gel. GLU is collected in tubes with K-oxalate and Na-fluoride,Heparin stabilised venous blood,Heparin stabilised arterial, capillary, venous blood, Heparin stabilised pulmonary venous blood,Heparin stabilised arterial blood from pulmonary artery (mixed venous blood), Heparin stabilised arterial blood,Li-heparin plasma,Lithium Heparin,Acites taken in Lithium Heparin 4 mL,Amniotic fluid (AC) + parental blood samples orchorionic villus biopsy (CVS), parental blood samples,
Multiple locations
Biopsies and bone marrow
FFPE tumour tissue, as block or section, Minimum 1 g tissue, EDTA-stabilised marrow,Tissue biopsy,Minimum 1 g tumour tissue,Bone marrow,Biopsy,Tumour tissue, fresh or paraffin section (FFPE),EDTA-stabilised blood + fresh biopsy iRNA-later,6-8 bone marrow imprints,Biopsy from eye tumour,Skin biopsy or cultured fibroblasts,Abortion tissue (placental tissue) from mola or obsmola, Trophectoderm biopsy,Expectorate, laryngeal aspirate,Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), tracheal secretions or secretions from sinus, bronchi, lung, tracheostoma, Liver biopsy in sterile isotonic saline or Lymph node biopsy, Aortic, tricuspid, mitral and pulmonary valve tissue, mechanical valve, Cytological specimen, Unfixed tissue or tissue in histocon Chorionic villus biopsy (CVS),Testis parenchymal biopsy,Unfixed tissue for macro assessment and cancer biobank (TØRT),Brush biopsy,Surgical specimen,Histological biopsy,Unfixed tissue,Muscle biopsy,Marrow clot, bone imprint, bone biopsy, marrow smear, peripheral blood,Fetal tissue, Achilles tendon biopsy or skin biopsy,Fetal tissue: E.g. Achilles tendon biopsy, Chorionic villus biopsy (CVS) or amniotic fluid (AC),
Multiple locations
Different liquids
Peritoneal dialysis fluid, ascites fluid, synovial fluid, bone marrow,Urine,Daily urine,Saliva,Drainage fluid,Spinal fluid,CSF (cerebrospinal fluid),Secretions,Pleural fluid,Cerebrospinal fluid collected in low binding polypropylene tubes,Nasal secretions (possibly ear discharge), Pericardial fluid,Tissue fluid, Ascites fluid,Synovial fluid,Cyst fluid, Droplet preparations, Smear preparations,Dialysis fluid,Dialysis fluid in syringe without air admixture,Morning urine,Midstream urine,Sodium fluoride/potassium oxalate stabilisedAscites fluid,Sodium fluoride/potassium oxalate stabilisedPleural fluid,Urine collected in detergent free container,Urine collected in detergent free container. Hydrochloric acid, Bone marrow aspirate, Respiratory secretions, BAL, swab,
Multiple locations
Foreign objects??
Aspirate from suspected echinococcyst or biopsy,Amniotic fluid and Bone marrow,Pus/fluid from: skin, upper respiratory tract, eyes, ears, urogenital tract, internal usually sterile areas and drainage fluid,Semen,Midstream urine, diagnostic catheter urine, or urine collected by sterile bladder puncture is preferred. Alternatively, indwelling catheter urine can be used. Pelvic collection should be avoided if possible,cerebrospinal fluid, cerebroventricular fluid (CSF), valve CSF, post-ejaculatory urine sample, abdominal or peritoneal lavage fluid, Worms, tapeworm joints, insects, other arthropods (arthropods), parasite-like elements Pacemaker electrode, electrode tips.
Multiple locations
Inoculations
Swabs from pharynx, nasal cavity, axilla + groin (both sides), rectum or stoma and any wounds, insertion site and urine if catheterised and tracheal secretions if intubated.swabs in virus medium from nasopharynx or nasopharyngeal suction. Alternatively: swabs in virus media from the pharynx, but here the sensitivity is significantly reduced. Additional sample materials: tracheal secretions, BAL, sputum.Nasal and/or pharyngeal swabs,Eye swabs,Swabs from vesicles or skin lesions,spinal fluid, BAL fluid and biopsies by appointment.Swabs from cervix, glans penis, oral cavity, urethra, vagina,eSwab,Swabs from anus, cervix, vagina, penis, eye, throat.Swabs from rectum or stoma, possibly wounds, insertion sites for foreign bodies. Swab from rectum or stoma, wounds, foreign body insertion sites, urine if catheter, respiratory secretions if intubated and locations where CPO has previously been detected.Swab from nose, throat, axilla/groin (both sides), rectum or stoma and any wounds, insertion site and urine if catheter, tracheal secretions if intubated.Swabs from upper airways, eyes, ears, urogenitialia, skin or other surface.
Leftovers from previous samples
Purified DNA, Bone marrow aspirate taken when requesting chromosome analysis, EDTA-stabilised whole blood. Alternatively, capillary samples can be used for children < 1 year
Waste products
Faeces, Faeces (shaped or semi-shaped), Clear tape with anal print on slides.
The image for this page is pretty useless. Came here looking for a diagram of the rough position of the organs in relation to each other. Not sure how the current image helps the subject at all. 172.104.92.42 (talk) 15:10, 11 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
It would be very nice if we could make something like the cask tool, but with a pop up menu on the site where you could click each organ and then it would colour that organ pink on the 3 images. As well as maybe have an arrow next to it in the pop down menu that one could clik to unfold and get a list of articles relevant to that particular organ? or is there a better way in which we could make a visual representation which makes it easy to keep an overview of all the organs and at the same time navigate all the articles written about them? Claes Lindhardt (talk) 17:50, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It seems the cask tool have about 2500 pics from top to bottom and about 800 from side to side. 2500+800+800=4100 pics. If we assume that Each and everyone of them need a separate version with each of the ca. 90 images coloured in that is: 4100*90=369000 spites to go on top of the images. would wiki commons support that? or is there a smarter way of doing it? It would certainly make other articles easier to navigate if we had something like:
File:ListOfOrgansVisualRepresentation Main.pngA suggestion of what a part of the list of organs page could look like, in order to allow people to more easily navigate all the articles related to cells, tissues and organs
A suggestion of what a part of the list of organs page could look like, in order to allow people to more easily navigate all the articles related to cells, tissues and organs
Would it make sense to add a column to the table saying 'prestages' [of the organ], where we list all the stages that an organ goes through before it takes its adult form? or is there a smarter way to do this, which takes into account that we might develop new organs in the future long term or the fact that we might have had other organs or organ systems historically? Claes Lindhardt (talk) 17:50, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
For example, this list contains much more than 79 different organs.
Ok, but what's with the unsourced magic number of "79"?
I think it might be because most people all agree on 79 of the organs, but the rest of them are still beeing discussed?? not 100 % sure tbh might also just be a historic relique. I think it will clarify itself once we settle on a defintion of an organ
Is it helpful to think of bones more as a part of an organ, then each beeing an organ on thier own? or do you think it would be better if we described them as one organ that could take many shapes, but always in order to forfill the same purpose? Claes Lindhardt (talk) 07:11, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've compressed the ear and brain (into 4 Levels).
Bones, Teeth, count as 1. "Nerves" count as 4. "Middle ear" (1 organ) is counted separately (from skeleton) (because it's listed separately in the article) but it's usually included in the skeleton. Male and Female Reproductive counted separately.
Adjustments.
Pancreas occurs in 2 places in the article: Digestive, Endocrine.
Ditto Pharynx: Digestive, Respiratory.
So only 100 at Level2.
This wiki article (with 100 at Level2) divides ear, eye, genitals, large and small intestines, mouth, salivary glands.
This wiki article doesn’t cite Appendix, Hair Follicle, Vestigial organ (so that means 3 extra "organs" to add to the wiki article, from The list of 78), and Diaphragm (but that is included in "Muscles of breathing").
Bulbourethral glands (or Cowper's glands, homologous to Bartholin's glands in females) (Bartholin's is not [currently] in the wiki article).
The list of 78 includes "Genitals", but also has Ovaries, Penis, Placenta, Prostate, Vagina, Vulva.
There is a templates from COVID-19 pandemic deaths, see also Help:Table#Scrolling_and_sticky_headers they are the most up-to-date / accessible / mobile-friendly method. which we also used at the List of skeletal muscles of the human body. Along with Template:Static row numbers for a numbering that automatically updates no matter how you sort your sortable table. I feel unsure as to how the diffent levels are defined? is system and subsystem also considered levels? or is it just level 1 and 2 which are to be considered levels? and how do you define when something is split into subsystem rather then a system on its own?
Maybe we could make something like; to clarify how many levels there actuelly is and how many it makes sense to have?
A count of organs cited in the wiki article (at Nov 2022), roughly using the layout used in the article.
Note: the article duplicates pancreas and pharynx, and lists “middle ear” bones separately from skeleton.
Subsystem count
Num
Subsystem
Count Level1
Count Level2
1
Musculoskeletal
5
5
2
Digestive
13
23
3
Respiratory
8
8
4
Urinary
4
4
5
Female
8
8
6
Male
8
8
7
Endocrine
6
6
8
Circulatory
4
4
9
Lymphatic
7
7
10
(Brain +)
3
9
11
Peripheral nervous
1
4
12
Sensory organs
4
13
13
Integumentary
3
3
Sum
74
102
If you count at Level1, exclude Skeleton (1), and one set of Reproductive (8), the count is 65, with duplicates removed results in 63.
Alternatively, counting 100 at Level2 (excluding duplicates); adding in Appendix, Hair Follicle, Bartholin's glands (making 9 for female Reproductive, and 8 for male) results in 103.
i.e. 94 for male, 95 for female (cited or listed).
Draft for Levels of building blocks to 1 standard human as of per 2023
The very nice looking table from Count 102 in the article, got me asking. How many levels is there to human organs and does it make sense to start the levels at 0 and then say level -1 for tissue and then -2 for cells and so on? and then 1 for organ systems? to indicate that the levels that we are trying to define is centered around organs? or should we rather say the smallest level we know atoms or quarks are the starting points? as this is an article about organs it make sense to centered it around the organs somehow?
An important point to add here is likely, that if we take all the things we know apart, and put them back together we still cannot make artificial organs. There thus is a kind of missing compentent? which likely is the bio-chemical enviroment somehow? or is there really something very concreate physical component that we are missing? this kind of binds this article to History of life also Claes Lindhardt (talk) 07:20, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The different building blocks that we think a human consists of today. Or at least the onces we have found so far, when we have picked humans apart
We could do a section of the article that goes something along:
'Although each organ varies greatly in shape, form and function they all have more or less the same building blocks( Atoms | Amino Acids | Lipids, Carbon hydrates, Proteins, Nucleic Acids | Organelles | Animal Cells, Bacteria | Tissue) and they all take part in an Organ system. However it have been tried multiple times to take all of the components of a cell apart and then mix them back togehter but this does not form a cell. How can that be? We still do not know what compent is missing before the components form life? maybe it is the enviroment under which these comes together and grow? maybe there is a part we haven't found yet. Despite the many ways in which we have picked cells apart. Claes Lindhardt (talk) 07:34, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Best way to handle organs which partake in multiple systems
Some organs partake in multiple systems, this is tricky to then list and categorise with a logical number of dublicates. An example of this is the muscles of breathing which are part of the musclular system as well as the respiratory. However of course not all muscles are are part of the respiratory system, so it cannot be solved by just adding two organsystems outside of the muscular system. How could we solve this and other simmilar problems smoothly? Claes Lindhardt (talk) 10:20, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
With the current defintion we would have to also add inferior vena cava, superior vena cava, pulmonary arteries, pulmonary veins, and root of the aorta or maybe just call them Major Heart Blood vessels? as an organ in thier own right? either that or change our defintions? Claes Lindhardt (talk) 09:56, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It feels very counter intuative that the glands are not all in the same organs system, but spread around multiple organ systems. Is there a good way in which we can explain this one the site?
We have all the nerves in one system, yet all the glands which produce different kind (of mostly chemical signaling), seems to fall under different systems. Why doesen't it make sense to put all the glands into a group or a system? would the signals that the gut microbiom can send also be a part of the bodys information system? Even though Slavoj Žižek might hate the idear, would it make sense to us to take some cues from information theory and informatics(as well as computer science) when trying alging our defintions and grouping of the Human bodys organs? Claes Lindhardt (talk) 10:04, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Reid Reimers made a nice video with SciShow; which can be found easily on youtube. digging into what organs are and why we change the defintion of what it is over time. But it would still be nice to know what criteria we used to describe something as an organ. So that people who look on this list in the future either to compare how understand have evolved or check weather they should add or remove something. Know what the starting point was? Claes Lindhardt (talk) 07:57, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
List of things that aren't organs but which are still essential parts of the human body
I think a lot of people have the idear that if you have all your organs you have a whole human body? and forget that things such as Blood and bacteria is not organs but still an essential part which you need before you can have a human body. Would it make sense to somehow mention this in the article? maybe even either make or refer to a list of all the things which a part of the human body but which is not included in any organ or organ system? or do we want to work our way around it by also including blood and bacteria into our defintion of the different organs and organ systems? Claes Lindhardt (talk) 17:56, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If you provide a link to good source explaining what makes it different from other arteries, we can fix it very quickly :) it is strange how some nerves are considered organs and other not, same goes for artieres and veins. This really point to the fuzziness of our current defintion. Right now the def on what in the list says an organ is something that preforms one particular function. But really many of the organs in the list perform many functions. Claes Lindhardt (talk) 07:46, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Interlinking with other wiki pages(DB overview ish)
Hey it seems a lof ot the content on this article interlinks well with the contents of:
A very rough draft for what kind of a structure a database like overview of the interlinking between a bunch of list relevant to human organs might have
Woulden't it make sense to try and make a kind of overview of the interlinking? so we can reflect on how meaningful the interlinking is? also to make it eaiser to maintain, and so that each of the list feels like an appetizing menu card from which one can easily navigate to the relevant information one need and quickly grounp things to try and test connections one thing might be there? so that is all starts to feel more like a map of the human body rather then a bunch of random articles? some of these already have templates, but not all of them? and the templates does not seem to interplay yet? Claes Lindhardt (talk) 11:13, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
A draft for the interlinking between different wikiepedia articles for the theme of Organs shown as a relational database
It seems things like Pancreas occurs more then once in the list? is the meaningful? is there other things we want to have occuring more then once? or should each organ only occur once? and then we can have double occurences in other columns? Claes Lindhardt (talk) 08:46, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Done. I created headings for each system as this makes the list more easily navegable and replaced the outdated Gray's Anatomy terms for the common synonyms in Terminologia Anatomica. There's a lot to be done though, I tried to add some images for each system but they didn't fit the article. I hope other editors can sort this out, as this is quite an important and viewed article. --Tilifa Ocaufa (talk) 03:40, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
