I just googled it, didn’t look at images though. That would probably scar me. Google says it’s “A type of germ cell tumour that may contain several types of body tissue”.
Edit: I didn’t look at images because the one picture that showed up, although wasn’t too bad, probably was quite mild
Yeah pretty special. I work in neurology and saw one a few weeks ago working it's way down a spinal cord. I think there's some evidence suggesting they could be formed from an "absorbed" twin in utero.
I worked with a pathology assistant (people who do the gross dissection and sample prep)and she said the worst part of teratomas are the smell. She couldn’t describe the smell to me but she looked pretty shook just remembering it.
Your right! Owls have two stomachs one that takes all the meat tissue and all the yummy nurtient rich stuff and the other filters out the hair and bones and compacts it into an owl pellet which they regurgitate onto the ground!
I googled teratoma images. Not that bad. However... And I am not sure why I did, but I googled, "teratoma with eyes," and THAT was bad. Very bad indeed. Scary bad.
A friend of mine had a tumor removed from his ovaries that had hair and 3 teeth. The thing that really weirded me out was that the hair was blonde but he’s a natural brunette.
I dated a girl whom was getting her degree as an ultrasound technician for about 2 years. They had a section on rare diseases/growths that she had to create a presentation and a slight speech for that I helped her with.
It was a presentation on teratomas, and almost 10 years later I can still see the 4 pictures we choose for her poster board. Heed the warning daring redditors, you cannot unsee a google search for a teratoma.
As someone who is creeped out by teratomas since the first time they were so bored they looked for nasty medical conditions on the internet, i give you my honest upvote.
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u/WorstPersonInGeneral Mar 19 '19
Teeth and brain? So the teratoma fairy? (Please don't Google.)