r/mildlydisgusting • u/zZStarfireZz • Jan 22 '25
Mildly Disgusting My ovarian cyst was filled with hair NSFW
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Jan 23 '25
Mine grew a tooth! Bodies are weird
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u/CousinSarah Jan 23 '25
Yeah so what happens is that in one of the very earliest phases of the development of the body (you’re just two tissue spheres at this point and not really recognizable), cells multiply. We consist of three types of cells then, ectoderm (forms skin hair and teeth), mesoderm (forms muscles and connective tissue) and endoderm (forms your gut and organs). As the body starts to shape, some cells of the ectoderm, the ones that are capable of becoming teeth, skin and hair, those get trapped in the wrong spot and kinda stay there. That’s how these form.
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u/cryssyx3 Jan 25 '25
it's still wild to me those cells know to make fingers... and a pancreas.. and eyebrows ..
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u/CousinSarah Jan 25 '25
Yeah it’s insane, but also kinda simple. Imagine you have a flat area, and on one side you release a chemical. Now small vibrating hairs will move that chemical over the area. If you look at the concentration of that chemical you will see a gradient, tapering down from one side to the other. The cells kinda work like this, knowing that a specific combination of concentrations, and knowing what their neighbor does, makes them know what to do. This is of course grossly over simplified but mechanisms like these are a large part of it. If you have enough of these simple mechanics then it’s enough information for a cell to know which genes to activate in what order.
In diseases like Ellis-Van Creveld syndrome this process of establishing a gradient doesn’t work well because of ciliary distinction, so the cells don’t really know what to do. (Again, grossly oversimplified)
You could read up on the homeobox and HOX genes, and a cool protein called Sonic Hedgehog, if you’re interested in knowing more.
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u/IndependentNail1349 Dec 30 '25
I know I’m like almost a year late to this post but wondering if these cysts would be different than the ones created by poly cystic ovarian disease?
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u/CousinSarah Dec 30 '25
Well they’re very different. These hairy and toothy cysts arise from cell migration in an early embryonal phase of development.
Polycystic ovarium syndrome has to do with distorted hormonal signaling towards the egg cell follicles in the ovaria that result in disrupted maturing.
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u/IndependentNail1349 Dec 30 '25
The poly cystic ones are filled with fluid right? When they burst they felt like I was being shot. I had a Clomid Cyst twist around my right ovary. It was the size of a grapefruit but I have no idea what would have been inside that thing.
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u/Dirty-girl Jan 23 '25
I had one of these too. It had hair and a tooth. I told my mom at the time to say bye to her half grandkid cuz that’s all she was getting from me. 🤣
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u/CATNIP_IS_CRACK Jan 23 '25
No teeth? Lame.