Your internal organs can autonomously seal their own wounds

Deep inside your abdomen hangs a lacy layer of fat called the omentum, often nicknamed the 'police of the belly.' When an organ like the appendix or the stomach wall is punctured, this extraordinary tissue actually crawls toward the site of the injury. It can autonomously seal eighty percent of small perforations by wrapping around them, preventing life-threatening leaks and buying patients a critical twenty-minute window of safety during the 'golden hour' of emergency care.