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Definition of Parenchyma

1. Noun. Animal tissue that constitutes the essential part of an organ as contrasted with e.g. connective tissue and blood vessels.

2. Noun. The primary tissue of higher plants composed of thin-walled cells that remain capable of cell division even when mature; constitutes the greater part of leaves, roots, the pulp of fruits, and the pith of stems.

Definition of Parenchyma

1. n. The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.

Definition of Parenchyma

1. Noun. (context: animal biology) The functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue. ¹

2. Noun. (botany) The ground tissue making up most of the non-woody parts of a plant. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Parenchyma

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Medical Definition of Parenchyma

1. The essential elements of an organ, used in anatomical nomenclature as a general term to designate the functional elements of an organ, as distinguished from its framework or stroma. Origin: Gr. = anything poured in beside This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parenchyma

parelius parella parellas parelle parelles parembole paremiological paremiologist paremiologists paremiology

paren parencephalitis parencephalocele parencephalous parenchyma (current term) parenchymal parenchymal atelectasis parenchymal cell parenchymas parenchymata

parenchymatitis parenchymatous parenchymatous cartilage parenchymatous cell of corpus pineale parenchymatous degeneration parenchymatous goiter parenchymatous haemorrhage parenchymatous mastitis parenchymatous neuritis

Literary usage of Parenchyma

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Histology of Medicinal Plants by William Mansfield (1916)
"This arrangement makes it possible for the parenchyma cells of the leaf to absorb more readily ... AQUATIC PLANT parenchyma The parenchyma of aquatic plants ..."

2. Identification of the Economic Woods of the United States: Including a by Samuel James Record (1919)
"The individual cells of a wood- parenchyma strand are mostly short and prismatic, ... Between wood fibres and wood-parenchyma strands are intermediate forms ..."

3. Identification of the Economic Woods of the United States: Including a by Samuel James Record (1912)
"The individual cells of a wood- parenchyma fibre are mostly short and prismatic, ... Between wood fibres and wood-parenchyma fibres are intermediate forms ..."

4. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology by Museum of Comparative Zoology, John E. Cadle, Harvard University (1905)
"The great bulk of the substance of the head therefore consists of parenchyma, and this is but little less true of the other portions of the body. ..."

5. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1903)
"THE parenchyma. The parenchyma (Figs. 6, 7, 8, 12, etc.) fills the places around the organs, being somewhat denser where it is in contact with them (Figs. ..."

6. Applied and Economic Botany: Especially Adapted for the Use of Students in by Henry Kraemer (1914)
"parenchyma.—Under the head of parenchyma are included those cells which are nearly ... In some instances the parenchyma, as in the endosperm of date, ..."

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