hemangiopericyte

noun

An adventitial pericyte, typically of a capillary.

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Meanings

nounhemangiopericyte (plural hemangiopericytes)

plural hemangiopericytes

  1. rareanatomyAn 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

Origin

From hemangio- + pericyte.

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