Definitions for parenchyma

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parenchyma pa·ren·chy·ma

Spelling: [puh-reng-kuh-muh]

IPA: /pəˈrɛŋ kə mə/

Parenchyma is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 570 anagrams from letters in parenchyma (aacehmnpry).

Definitions for parenchyma

noun

1. Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
2. Anatomy, Zoology. the specific tissue of an animal organ as distinguished from its connective or supporting tissue.
3. Zoology. a type of soft, spongy connective tissue of certain invertebrates, as the flatworms.
4. Pathology. the functional tissue of a morbid growth.

Origin of parenchyma

1645-55; New Latin Greek parénchyma literally, something poured in beside, equivalent to par- par- + énchyma infusion; see en-²,

Examples for parenchyma

The parenchyma of the barks abounds in starch and oxalate of lime, or else contains a soft brown deposit.

It consists of two elements—sclerenchyma and parenchyma cells.

The spleen was enlarged and its parenchyma and capsule distended.

Its parenchyma was soft and flabby, but contained no abscesses or infractions.

To ascertain the presence of bubble-cells in the parenchyma of a Spongillid.

The commonest of the latter are inflammations of the parenchyma of the lungs.

The parenchyma in the darker places on section did not crepitate.

Bleeding may also occur from vessels in the parenchyma of organs invaded by the ulcer.

The raphe runs through the parenchyma found in the cleft of the berry.

Of which I take the reason (excluding a parenchyma now) to be this.