Hemangiopericyte
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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."
Example
More examples"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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