Hemangiopericyte

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An adventitial pericyte, typically of a capillary. rare

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From hemangio- + pericyte.

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