hemangiopericyte
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An adventitial pericyte, typically of a capillary.
Example Sentences
- "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.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: hemangio