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A tumor consisting of a mixture of tissues not normally found at that site
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teratoma
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WordNet
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n. a tumor consisting of a mixture of tissues not normally found at that site
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Teratoma \Ter`a*to"ma\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, ?, monster + -oma.] (Med.) A tumor, sometimes found in newborn children, which is made up of a heterigenous mixture of tissues, as of bone, cartilage and muscle.
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A teratoma is a tumor with tissue or organ components resembling normal derivatives of more than one germ layer . Although the teratoma may be monodermal or polydermal (originating from one or more germ layers), its cells may differentiate in ways suggesting ...
Wiktionary
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n. (context pathology English) 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.
Usage examples of teratoma.
I may venture to assert, though with all the inevitable reserves, of course, that it is not malignant, and that we are in the presence not of the tumour you mentioned, still less of a metastasis - God between us and evil - but of a splanchnic teratoma.
The complicated teratoma of this class may contain, in addition to the previously mentioned structures, cartilage and glands, mucous and serous membrane, muscle, nerves, and cerebral substance, portions of eyes, fingers with nails, mammae, etc.
After isolating the immortalizing traits from teratoma sources, I proposed that viral, retroviral, and even prion vectors might be engineered to transfer the selected traits into the human genome.
The seating was dead, exotic knotworks of malformed calcium teratomas harvested from a biocoral tank, all ribs and jawbones.
And did both of those peculiarities relate to Sebastian's earliest days, when as small children they had each wandered alone among the wild teratomas and devastated landscape of Earth's northern hemisphere?