12th grade A&P class trip

Today in class we learned about teratomas after looking at the slides I realized that I have seen these before. In the twelfth grade for my honors A and P class we took a trip to the Bodies Exhibit museum in Brooklyn New York. One of the displays showed an ovary where there were teeth and hair growing, another exhibit that I remember seeing is was a foot with toe nails growing in the body. This trip intrigued me; although I already knew I wanted to be a doctor it showed me there was a lot to learn and it would be something I enjoy learning.  

Figure 1: teeth and hair from a mature cystic teratoma of the ovary. Called a dermoid cyst.