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What is a teratoma?

What is a teratoma? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (pathology) A benign or malignant tumour, especially of the gonads, that arises from germ cells and consists of different types of tissue such as skin, hair, or muscle.
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Consider a birth defect such as a large tumour called sacrococcygeal teratoma, which grows on the back of a little baby.
These are essentially the mature teratoma and tumours of the fibro-thecal group.
Another neonatal tumor is sacrococcygeal teratoma, which appears as cystic, solid, or mixed masses that arise from the sacrococcygeal region.
Gastric teratoma is a rare tumor usually seen in male infants.
Indeed, one test of embryonic stem cell pluripotency is teratoma formation in immuno-suppressed mice.
Formation of a keratinizing epithelium in culture by a cloned cell line derived from a teratoma.

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