how do your intestines end up back in their original positions if disturbed during surgery?
In: Biology
They squirm their way back into place.
The intestines have lots of smooth muscle in their walls, which contracts rhythmically to move your food through the system (this contraction is called ‘peristalsis’). They are also (partially) enveloped in a sheet of tissue called the omentum, which helps them stay in place when you are sitting or standing upright.
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it’s kind of like tetris with your insides. the surgeons just gotta slide em back where they belong. pretty cool how the body knows what to do, huh
The surgeon puts everything back where it was, more or less. There’s connective tissue that keeps the intestines where they belong though, they’re not exactly freely floating in the abdomen.
dude it’s like a game of tetris just with organs. they kinda know where to go back and doc just kinda helps them figure it out, pretty cool stuff.
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