teratoma (tayr-uh-TOH-muh)

A type of germ cell tumor that may contain several different types of tissue,such as hair,teeth,muscle,and bone.

Malignant teratoma is a type of cancer that involves cysts that contain one or more of the three main types of cells found in a developing baby (embryo).
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"...The immortal individual,freed from the need for further incarnations on this plane,can then move onto the next stage,the nature of that stage we cannot envisage at our present level of development..If we could grasp its essense and detail,we should not still be here."
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..."to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France? If we take the train to get to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to reach a star. One thing undoubtedly true in this reasoning is this: that while we are alive we cannot get to a star, any more than when we are dead we can take the train.
So it doesn't seem impossible to me that cholera, gravel, pleurisy & cancer are the means of celestial locomotion,
just as steam-boats, omnibuses and railways are the terrestrial means. To die quietly of old age would be to
go there."
-from Vincent Van Gogh letter-july 1888