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Wet machinery doing the gross, brilliant work of keeping you alive and unaware.
means Self-contained body parts—heart, liver, skin—each built from tissues to perform one vital job.
from From Greek organon, a tool or instrument, via Latin organum, which also gave us the musical kind—both being elaborate devices that pump.
LargestSkin, your body's two-square-meter overcoat.
OptionalSpleen, appendix, one kidney—surprisingly skippable.
GreedyBrain hogs 20% of your energy.
Newest memberMesentery, declared an organ in 2016.