teratoma. a type of germ cell tumor made up of a number of different types of tissue from one or more of the germ cell layers; it is usually found in the ovary or testis and may be either benign or malignant.
The first and the most dangerous effect of watching too much of television is mass physical degradation in our society. People, who spend hours and hours in front of the TV sets, are under very high risk of becoming overweight and obese.
1 Central Claim: Persistent long term exposure to TV content has small but measurable effects on the perceptual worlds of audience members. 2  Heavy TV viewing creates an exaggerated belief in a mean and scary world. ( 3 Gerbner). 4  TV has surpassed religion as the key storyteller of our (US American) culture.