noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 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."

Synonyms

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perithelioma

Example

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"The cause was hemangiopericytoma, a rare vascular cancer, said his wife, Dizzy Cox."

Etymology

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

Related phrases

soft tissue

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