germ cell tumor
MONDO:0005040Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names germ cell tumor yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A benign or malignant, gonadal or extragonadal neoplasm that originates from germ cells. Representative examples include teratoma, seminoma, embryonal carcinoma, and yolk sac tumor.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0005040), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
- Narrower terms (13)
- adult germ cell tumor
- childhood germ cell tumor
- choriocarcinoma
- extragonadal germ cell tumor
- fallopian tube germ cell tumor
- germ cell benign neoplasm
- germ cell tumor of the vulva
- germinomatous germ cell tumor
- gonadal germ cell tumor
- malignant germ cell tumor
- nongerminomatous germ cell tumor
- ovarian germ cell tumor
- retroperitoneal germ cell neoplasm
Other names
7 names
Resolves to: germ cell tumor
- Also called
- germ cell neoplasmneoplasm of germ cellneoplasm of the germ celltumor of germ celltumor of the germ celltumour of germ celltumour of the germ cell