Meanings
plural hemangiopericytomas · plural hemangiopericytomata
- medicineA 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 TimesSynonyms: hemangiocytoma
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA sarcoma of the soft tissue that originates in the pericytes in the walls of capillaries.
Origin
From hemangiopericyte + -oma (“neoplastic tumor”), the former from hemangio- + pericyte.
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