dermoid

Definitions

Examples

• The chief of these are: simple—dermoid patches, moles of the limbus; malignant—sarcoma, endothelioma, epithelioma.

• The literature of dermoid cysts is full of accounts of puzzling tumours met with in all sorts of situations.

• If the external orifice becomes occluded, there results a dermoid cyst.

• The mange mite is known as Sarcoptes canis, and takes up its abode upon the superficial dermoid structures.

• In consequence of the continuity and similarity of structure, there is close sympathy between the mucous and dermoid membranes.