teratoma
Americannoun
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teratomas,
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teratomata
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noun
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Its causes include a benign ovarian tumor called a teratoma.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2022
For months, they had tried to make a teratoma, the first major step to indicating pluripotency.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 29, 2016
And she had used an image of cells in a teratoma — a tumorous growth that includes multiple types of tissue — that had also appeared in her PhD dissertation.
From Nature ● Jul. 2, 2014
And there is no evidence that a teratoma formed in either patient.
From Reuters ● Jan. 23, 2012
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.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
He suspected that antibodies their immune systems generated to attack the teratomas were mistakenly taking aim at proteins in their brains as well.
From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2024
It dawned on Dalmau that three other young women with similar symptoms referred to him in previous months also had benign ovarian teratomas.
From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2024
She clicked with Wan and Bisu, and was indeed familiar with teratomas — a friend had undergone surgery to have one removed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2021
In these ovarian teratomas, you get skin, you get hair, you get nails, you get all manner of body parts.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2012
They can form teratomas, a type of tumor that arises when stem cells differentiate into a profusion of cell types.
From Reuters ● Jan. 23, 2012
The solid teratomata, with all varieties of connective tissue, as fibrous tissue, fat tissue, cartilage, bone, neuroglia, in addition to nerves, muscle, and vessels.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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