pericyte /peri·cyte/ (per´ĭ-sīt) one of the elongated, contractile cells found wrapped about precapillary arterioles outside the basement membrane. 
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Pericyte, its processes wrapped around the capillary epithelium.
per·i·cyte (p r  -s t )n. A slender, relatively undifferentiated, connective tissue cell that occurs about capillaries or other small blood vessels. Also called adventitial cell. |
pericyte
one of the peculiar elongated, contractile cells found wrapped about precapillary arterioles outside the basement membrane.
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