Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to, containing, consisting of, or resembling parenchyma, in any sense of that word.
- Of or pertaining to the Parenchy-mata; acœlomatous, as a cestoid worm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the parenchyma of a tissue or an organ.
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- adjective medicine Alternative form of
parenchymal . - adjective botany Related to
parenchyma .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When the inflammation of the epithelia is severe and may lead to their partial destruction, it is called a parenchymatous inflammation; that is, one involving the soft cellular substance.
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The other had increased much in size; and towards its posterior end, a clear space was formed in the parenchymatous mass, in which a rudimentary cup-shaped mouth could clearly be distinguished; on the under surface, however, no corresponding slit was yet open.
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The other had increased much in size; and towards its posterior end, a clear space was formed in the parenchymatous mass, in which a rudimentary cup-shaped mouth could clearly be distinguished; on the under surface, however, no corresponding slit was yet open.
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The inferior lobe, when emptied of its contents, was so much excavated that the parenchymatous substance felt light and flaccid.
An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners Archibald Makellar
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The parenchymatous substance was found ragged and unrespirable, and many large blood-vessels crossing from either side of the cavity, pervious to blood.
An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners Archibald Makellar
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In the cells of the cambium, the same fluid penetrating unites with the protoplasm, and so alters it that the cells produced from it form, not good normal wood, but a morbid parenchymatous structure.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. Various
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The bast is drawn through between the knife and the block, the operator twisting the fibre, at each pull, around a stick of wood or his arm, whilst the parenchymatous pulp remains on the other side of the knife.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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On examining the internal structure of the cavity, the parenchymatous substance which formed its walls presented a rugged and irregular appearance, resembling a sponge hollowed out, and infiltrated with black paint.
An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners Archibald Makellar
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The microscope showed this to consist of parenchymatous cells, with here and there a group of the wheel-like or radiating cells which botanists, I think, term sphere-crystals.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various
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~ -- In a systematic investigation of the celluloses in relation to function we shall have to give special attention to the parenchymatous tissues of all kinds.
Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 C. F. Cross
hernesheir commented on the word parenchymatous
(adj): in plants, rather unspecialized or undifferentiated thin-walled ground tissue cells making up the bulk of non-woody tissues, such as the pith of stems, the mesophyll of leaves, or the cortex between the epidermis and pericycle of a root or shoot.
January 4, 2009