[Madmonk]

A dermoid cyst is a cystic teratoma that contains developmentally mature skin complete with hair follicles and sweat glands, sometimes luxuriant clumps of long hair, and often pockets of sebum, blood, fat, bone, nails, teeth, eyes, cartilage, and thyroid tissue. (wikipedia)

[chris]

ah, shit.. man that's gross lol..

[Nyckname]

No duh. It takes a lot to squick me out. Those always do the job.

[mikebob]

wow very interesting!
From the contents of the dermoid cyst i'd say that this was present since birth; instead of being developed post natal.
Apparently these cyst contain a kind of embryonic stem cell (multipotent cells) which would have normally developed into the different layers of the body and eventually skin hair bones etc.

[chris]

barf, barf barf, barf

[HumptyDumpty]

Ohhhh, I've seen a weirder, more developed, version of this. Some little kid had one growin in his stomach.... adka;dasdl

[brucefrommexico:)]

woooooaaaa

[missmorbidity]

isn't this mentioned in "The Dark Half" by Steven King?

[starstar]

nasty

[Marcusbr]

eeeewwwwwwwwww