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hemangiopericytoma

hemangiopericytoma noun: a sarcoma of the soft tissue that originates in the pericytes in the walls of capillaries.

Noun

hemangiopericytoma (plural hemangiopericytomas or hemangiopericytomata)

  1. A sarcoma of the soft tissue that originates in the pericytes in the walls of capillaries.
    • The cause was hemangiopericytoma, a rare vascular cancer, said his wife, Dizzy Cox.2009 April 19, Margalit Fox, “Michael Cox, Editor and Author of ‘The Meaning of Night,’ Dies at 60”, in New York Times
    Synonyms:
    hemangiocytoma

Synonyms of hemangiopericytoma

Forms of hemangiopericytoma

pluralhemangiopericytomas
pluralhemangiopericytomata

Origin of hemangiopericytoma

From hemangiopericyte + -oma (“neoplastic tumor”), the former from hemangio- + pericyte.

Questions about hemangiopericytoma

What does hemangiopericytoma mean?
Hemangiopericytoma means a sarcoma of the soft tissue that originates in the pericytes in the walls of capillaries.
What part of speech is hemangiopericytoma?
Hemangiopericytoma is a noun.
What is the plural of hemangiopericytoma?
The plural of hemangiopericytoma is hemangiopericytomas.

Words near hemangiopericytoma in the dictionary

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

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