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
- The capsule is intact and slightly wrinkled, and the parenchyma is pale purple and trabecular.
- Computer-assisted sterology: point fraction of lung parenchyma and alveolar surface density in fetal and newborn sheep.
- Heather and I made up a new meaning for parenchyma (some layer or something on your heart, whatever) and the new meaning (and spelling) turned out to be
- Fetal tracheal occlusion for severe congenital diaphragmatic hernia in humans: A morphometric study of lung parenchyma and muscularization of pulmonary arterioles.
- It is the cell-sap of the ordinary cell tissue or parenchyma, which is colored by the anthocyan, and for this reason all organs possessing this tissue, may exhibit the color in question.
- Vascular transport can be described as a diffusion process through plant root aerochyma (parenchyma containing large air spaces typical of emergent and marginal wetland species), which is a continuous network of gas-filled channels.
- Deposition of asbestos fibres in the parenchyma of the lung may result in the penetration of the visceral pleura from where the fibre can then be carried to the pleural surface, thus leading to the development of malignant mesothelial plaques.
- Henceforward, if I ever make botanical quotations, I shall always call parenchyma, By-tis; prosenchyma, To-tis; and diachyma, Through-tis, short for By-tissue, To-tissue, and Through-tissue -- then the student will see what all this modern wisdom comes to!
- In some cases, relief of vasomotor instability was more easily obtained with vitamin E than with the use of estrogen; however, the chief advantage of vitamin E over estrogens is its freedom of stimulative effect on the genital system or on the parenchyma of the breast.
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