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definition
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.
Examples of teratoma in a Sentence
It is often used to treat seminoma but not usually to treat teratoma.
Bleomycin is frequently used as one of the drugs in multiple chemotherapy regimes (e.g. squamous cell carcinoma, testicular teratoma, lymphoma ).
Residual cancer could not reliably be predicted or discriminated from necrosis or mature teratoma by the prognostic criteria.
The size of the removed specimen was 13.5 x 8.5 x 7.5 cm, and weight 530 g. The pathological diagnosis was immature teratoma.
Bleomycin is frequently used as one of the drugs in multiple chemotherapy regimes (e.g. squamous cell carcinoma, testicular teratoma, lymphoma).
Sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT) is the most common tumor in newborns, occurring in one out of every 35,000 to 40,000 births.
Sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT)-A tumor occurring at the base of the tailbone in a fetus.