Your lungs, heart, and gut are wrapped in a smooth, slippery coat. Visceral mesothelial cells make that coat.
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Visceral means having to do with your organs. These cells cover the outside of your lungs, heart, stomach, and intestines.
They are flat cells in a single layer, like a very thin, shiny wrapping. A second lining sits on the inside of your body walls. Between the two is a thin film of fluid.
The two linings are really one sheet that folds back on itself, like a balloon pushed in by a fist. The organ is the fist!
Your lungs grow and shrink when you breathe. Your heart beats all day and night. Your gut squeezes food along.
Press Look inside on the 3D model to see the organ, its wrapper cells, and the fluid layer.
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