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hemangiopericytoma en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

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:

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Synonyms

hemangiocytoma