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hemangiopericytes

hemangiopericytes is the plural of hemangiopericyte.

Meaning of hemangiopericyte

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

Questions about hemangiopericytes

What is hemangiopericytes the plural of?
Hemangiopericytes is the plural of hemangiopericyte.

Words near hemangiopericytes in the dictionary

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

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