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hemangiopericyte en · NOUN

Etymology

From hemangio- + pericyte.

Meanings

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:

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Deriveds

hemangiopericytoma