hemangiopericyte

English

Etymology

From hemangio- +‎ pericyte.

Noun

hemangiopericyte (plural hemangiopericytes)

1. (anatomy, rare) An adventitial pericyte, typically of a capillary.
   • 1991, Koichi Kowai et al., “A Case of Renin Producing Leiomyosarcoma Originating in the Lung”, in Endocrinol Jpn., volume 38:

     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.