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hemangiopericyte

hemangiopericyte noun: an adventitial pericyte, typically of a capillary.

Noun

hemangiopericyte (plural hemangiopericytes)

  1. (rare) An adventitial pericyte, typically of a capillary.
    • Since the production of renin has been identified in the brain, blood vessel walls, adrenal, ovary and testis in addition to the kidney, extra-renal renin secreting tumors have been reported in tumors which developed in the genital organs, the hemangiopericytes of the eye and the adrenal.1991, Koichi Kowai et al., “A Case of Renin Producing Leiomyosarcoma Originating in the Lung”, in Endocrinol Jpn., volume 38

Forms of hemangiopericyte

pluralhemangiopericytes

Origin of hemangiopericyte

From hemangio- + pericyte.

Words formed from hemangiopericyte

Questions about hemangiopericyte

What does hemangiopericyte mean?
Hemangiopericyte means an adventitial pericyte, typically of a capillary.
What part of speech is hemangiopericyte?
Hemangiopericyte is a noun.
What is the plural of hemangiopericyte?
The plural of hemangiopericyte is hemangiopericytes.

Words near hemangiopericyte in the dictionary

  1. hemangiomas
  2. hemangiomata
  3. hemangiomatoses
  4. hemangiomatosis
  5. hemangiomatous
  6. hemangiopericyte
  7. hemangiopericytes
  8. hemangiopericytoma
  9. hemangiopericytomas
  10. hemangiopericytomata
  11. hemangiopericytomatoid

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