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dermoid cyst
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dermoid cyst [¦dər‚mȯid ′sist]
(medicine)
A benign cystic teratoma with skin, skin appendages, and their products as the most prominent components, usually involving the ovary or the skin.


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Epidermoids are distinct from dermoid cysts in that they do not contain skin appendages or mesoderm elements such as hair and sebaceous glands.
Subsequently, cases of meningitis, septicemia, necrotizing enterocolitis, brain abscesses, cerebral infarctions and dermoid cysts of the posterior fossa caused by E.
By the time the two-part episode ends, doctors will have discovered additional growths - dermoid cysts - on her ovaries.
 
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