Neoplastic Process
mature teratoma
ma·ture ter·a·to·ma [ muh-choor tayr-uh-toh-muh ]
Definitions related to mature teratoma:
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A teratoma which may be cystic; it is composed entirely of well differentiated, adult-type mature tissues, without evidence of fetal-type immature tissues (grade 0 teratoma).NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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A type of benign (not cancer) germ cell tumor (type of tumor that begins in the cells that give rise to sperm or eggs) that often contains several different types of tissue such as hair, muscle, and bone.NCI Dictionary of Cancer TermsU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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