Teratomas

The Morbid Curiosity Podcast

Hallie Lloyd

Cryptid, Serialkiller, Science, Disease, Medicine, Scary, Skeleton, Historyofmedicine, Social Sciences, Ghost, History, Medical, Anthropology, Monsters, Archeology, Murder, Creepy, Skeptic, Paranormal, Prison

4.8 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Teratomas are a unique type of tumor that are best known for containing human teeth and hair. Let's discuss the history of these tumors, and how those teeth and hair end up inside them.

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0:00.0	This episode was suggested by a listener, Jordan H, on our website.
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0:20.3	This episode contains detailed descriptions of abnormal tumorous growths in both adults and children.
0:27.3	If that's not something you want to hear about, this may be a good episode to skip. Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved.
0:51.1	Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity, and it has gripped hundreds of people throughout the ages.
0:59.7	I am one of those people.
1:02.1	My name is Halley, and this is the Morbid Curiosity podcast.
1:10.5	Music Most people have heard of tumors. Most people have heard of tumors. This is because tumors and cancer are often used interchangeably. This, however, is misleading,
1:31.2	as the word tumor does not necessarily mean cancer, and there are many types of tumors that are
1:37.1	benign, meaning they aren't cancerous or malignant. A tumor, also called a neoplasm, is a mass or swelling on part of the body, which is not
1:47.4	related to inflammation and is caused by an abnormal growth of tissue. There are many types of tumors,
1:54.7	but in this episode we're going to focus on one specific type, a very rare tumor that has been known to include very strange
2:03.0	things inside of it, things like hair, teeth, and even fingers. This type of tumor is called
2:10.7	a teratoma, and they are one of the most interesting and rare mysteries in the medical world today.
2:20.3	The exact reason these tumors form is still unknown, but it seems to be related to abnormal function and development in germ cells,
2:26.7	also called embryonic cells. We'll get into this in a moment. First, I want to discuss what
2:32.8	a teratoma is. The word teratoma comes from the Greek word
2:37.7	terras, meaning monstrous, and oma meaning swelling. This term was coined by Rudolf Virchow, a German
2:45.7	physician in 1863. A teratoma is a tumor that is made up of many different types of tissues that are not
2:54.2	local to the part of the body where the tumor is found. For example, a teratoma on a human
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