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parenchyma en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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  • /pəˈɹɛŋ.kɪm.ə/

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παρέγχῠμα (parénkhŭma, “anything poured in beside”), from πᾰρᾰ- (pără-, “beside”) + ἔγχῠμα (énkhŭma, “instillation, content of a vessel”), given by the Greek anatomist Erasistratus to the peculiar substance of the lungs, liver, kidneys, and spleen, as if formed separately by the veins that run into them. By surface analysis, para- + -enchyma.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The functional tissue of an organ as distinguished from the connective and supporting tissue.
    • Previously blood and air had been thought to mingle freely in the fleshy parenchyma of the lungs, but the microscope now revealed the membranous alveoli at the ends of the tracheo-bronchial ramifications. 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 217:
  2. (countable, uncountable) The cellular tissue, typically soft and succulent, found chiefly in the softer parts of leaves, pulp of fruits, bark and pith of stems, etc.
  3. (countable, uncountable) Cellular tissue lying between the body wall and the organs of invertebrate animals lacking a coelom, such as flatworms.
    • [I]n a Sponge, the Parenchyma, it seems, is but a kind of mucous gelly, which is very easily and cleerly wash'd away. 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXII:

Forms

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parenchymas Number=Plur lexicographic
parenchymata Number=Plur lexicographic

Antonyms

stroma

Coordinates

idioblast

Deriveds

parenchymal · parenchymous · wood parenchyma · parenchymatous · interparenchymatous · parenchymatitis · palisade parenchyma · pseudoparenchyma · neuroparenchyma · -enchyma

Relateds

alchemy · enchyma · chyme

Translations (23)

fi perussolukko (functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue) · fa نرمآگنه (functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue) · ro parenchim (functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue) · it parenchima (functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue) · de Parenchym (functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue) · nb parenkym (functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue) · ca parènquima (functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue) · tr parankima (functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue) · cs parenchym (functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue) · el παρέγχυμα (functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue) · hy պարենքիմ (functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue) · es parénquima (functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue) · sv parenkym (functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue) · fa پارانشیم (functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue) · tl mulsihayan (functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue) · cmn 實質 /实质 (functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue) · cmn 薄壁組織 /薄壁组织 (functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue) · he פרנכימה (functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue) · ru паренхи́ма (functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue) · pt parênquima (functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue) · fi parenkyymi (functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue) · fr parenchyme (functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue) · id parenkim (functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue)

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