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.
With this in mind, I suggest that we give serious consideration to the social learning effects of television, in terms of the transmission of information (Spring 1992), in our investigations of public knowledge about the criminal justice system, and of the relationship between law and society in general.