hemangiopericytoma

English

Etymology

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

Noun

hemangiopericytoma (plural hemangiopericytomas or hemangiopericytomata)

1. (oncology) A sarcoma of the soft tissue that originates in the pericytes in the walls of capillaries.
   • 2009 April 19, Margalit Fox, “Michael Cox, Editor and Author of ‘The Meaning of Night,’ Dies at 60”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

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