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Jarus, LiveScience Contributor
Date:
21 January 2013 Time: 09:09 AM ET
In a
necropolis in Spain, archaeologists have found the remains of a Roman woman who
died in her 30s with a calcified tumor in her pelvis, a bone and four deformed
teeth embedded within it.
Two
of the teeth are still attached to the wall of the tumor researchers say.
The
woman, who died some 1,600 years ago, had a condition known today as an
ovarian teratoma which,
as its name indicates, occurs in the ovaries . The word Teratoma
comes from the Greek words "teras" and "onkoma" which
translate to "monster" and "swelling," respectively. The
tumor is about 1.7 inches (44 millimeters) in diameter at its largest point.
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