parenchyma
IPA: pɝˈɛnkʌmʌ
noun
- (anatomy) The functional tissue of an organ as distinguished from the connective and supporting tissue.
- (botany) The cellular tissue, typically soft and succulent, found chiefly in the softer parts of leaves, pulp of fruits, bark and pith of stems, etc.
- (zoology) Cellular tissue lying between the body wall and the organs of invertebrate animals lacking a coelom, such as flatworms.
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Examples of "parenchyma" in Sentences
- This gap is filled with parenchyma tissue .
- It generally extends into the lung parenchyma.
- Parenchyma is the most specialized primitive tissue.
- The tumor is compressing the normal kidney parenchyma.
- I know CAP is an acute infection of the pulmonary parenchyma.
- The stroma in animal tissue is contrasted with the parenchyma.
- The parenchyma are the functional parts of an organ in the body.
- DAD is characterized by a diffuse inflammation of lung parenchyma.
- In the liver, flukes migrate within the parenchyma to search another fluke.
- Parenchyma cells within the center of the root or shoot constitute the pith.
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