If you're as ignorant as I was, the definition of a dermoid cyst is according to wikipedia:

A dermoid cyst is a cystic teratoma that contains developmentally mature skin complete with hair follicles and sweat glands, sometimes luxuriant clumps of long hair, and often pockets of sebum, blood, fat, bone, nails, teeth, eyes, cartilage, and thyroid tissue. Because it contains mature tissue, a dermoid cyst is almost always benign.



An introspective third eye... Dunno if I want one though.

>> ^EndAll:
...it's not just fluid, I think - it looked like a clump under the skin with bits being broken off with the pressure applied.. so it's more viscous and cheese-like...


This is Keratin - a semi-solid material consisting principally of sebum and dead skin cells.
They mention how badly it smells which suggests to me that it is probably infected, but given it's size I agree with deathcow that his immune system will handle this fine.

Just a quick point about the pig zits.

Those pork rinds go through 2 rendering processes. They convert 120 million pounds of pork skins to 40 million pounds of pork rinds. Most of that weight is lost as water but a lot of it is oil that's rendered out. That oil gets resold into the food industry for other uses.

So, that pig sebum, from all those pig zits? Enjoy your breakfast sausages!

>> ^grinter:
Title changed, and tags altered once more so that people might actually find the video.
^mauz15, I should have left the 'sebaceous cyst' tag I originally had on this. I hate it when I get blockages in the openings of the meibomian glands... especially if I'm wearing contacts. I had no idea they went that far into the eyelid. Thanks for pointing that out.
So, how deep in the skin does a build-up of sebum (or whatever) have to be for the problem to be a cyst, and not a pimple? (not talking specifically about meibomian glands here).


a cyst is different from a pimple in the sense that the cyst is more like a sac, whereas a pimple is like a blockage, a comedo (whitehead/blackhead), papules (red pimples) and pustules (like whiteheads but deeper) resulting from blockage of a hair follicle, oil glands, and other causes I don't know about. How deep? I don't know, probably a lesion is considered a cyst if it makes it to the second skin layer, which is the dermis.

edit: apparently if it is 5mm across, it is a cyst, but I got that from some regular website so it could be false.

Title changed, and tags altered once more so that people might actually find the video.

^mauz15, I should have left the 'sebaceous cyst' tag I originally had on this. I hate it when I get blockages in the openings of the meibomian glands... especially if I'm wearing contacts. I had no idea they went that far into the eyelid. Thanks for pointing that out.
So, how deep in the skin does a build-up of sebum (or whatever) have to be for the problem to be a cyst, and not a pimple? (not talking specifically about meibomian glands here).

Tags for this video have been changed from 'pimple, zit, sebaceous, pop, puss, sebum, pus, eyelid, scalpel, ooze' to 'eyelid, surgery, chalazion, excision, cyst, meibomian gland lipogranuloma, medicine' - edited by mauz15

mmmmm nothing like juicy sebum! Nature is so beautiful!

The music and visuals of this vid help relax the soul...