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peritubular

adjective

peritubular is an adjective meaning “Surrounding a tubule or tubules, especially the uriniferous tubules” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-E-R-I-T-U-B-U-L-A-R, and it appears about once in every 93 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does peritubular mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Surrounding a tubule or tubules, especially the uriniferous tubules.

    peritubular dentin

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is peritubular?

Peritubular appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does peritubular come from?

From peri- + tubular.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).