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.
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