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A female body part disappeared from textbooks because doctors thought it was useless

Overlooked for more than a century, this organ may have been doing far more behind the scenes than doctors realized.
Don’t call it a comeback.
For more than a century, an organ in the female reproductive system was written off as useless.
However, a recent study indicates that what researchers have called a “mysterious orphan structure” may play an essential role i... [3309 chars]
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