The Loop Of Henle Comments
Do you know what the Loop of Henle is? It exists. It truly is.
But I still can't figure out what it is. Even defined, it remains
an obtuse and befuddling mystery. And I am nonplussed and
uncertain of what next steps to take: I don't understand.
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I’ve never heard of the Loop of Henie. but you’ve left me very interested. Something to do with evolution? Keep me posted.
That's EXACTLY what I thought when I first heard of it, and I agree it sounds like that (which is why I wrote the poem) but it is a medical term used to describe a part of the liver I think that handles absorptions of certain byproducts of the gastric consumption cycle. Not nearly exotic as it sounds. My sister thought it was a river in Scotland that winds through the mountains and glades in a loop form!
It's actually an anatomical part of the kidney responsible for water retrieval from urine named after its discoverer, the German anatomist Frederich Gustav Jakobs Henle. I preferred our poetic interpretations of evolution and rivers in Scotland.
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7/26/2025 2:41:52 PM # 1.0.0
But the poems that make things so poetic, complicated, elaborate and hermeneutc, that I get to feel like I am some kind of genius, just to understand through this new and novel way of explaining to me what The Loop of Henle is. expressive 10+++++++++++
Thank you for this honorable compliment! I appreciate it. And you chose an interesting set of words to rewrite! You know it's an anatomical term…..