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PARENCHYMA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Animal tissue that constitutes the essential part of an organ as contrasted with e.g. connective tissue and blood vessels
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("parenchyma" is a kind of...):
animal tissue (the tissue in the bodies of animals)
Sense 2
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("parenchyma" is a kind of...):
plant tissue (the tissue of a plant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parenchyma"):
chlorenchyma (parenchyma whose cells contain chloroplasts)
Holonyms ("parenchyma" is a substance of...):
flesh; pulp (a soft moist part of a fruit)
pith (soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants)
root ((botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground)
foliage; leaf; leafage (the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants)
Context examples:
It is characterized by the presence of malignant signet ring cells infiltrating the pancreatic parenchyma in an individual cell pattern.
(Pancreatic Signet Ring Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A rare, reactive lesion in the lung parenchyma.
(Nodular Lymphoid Hyperplasia of Lung, NCI Thesaurus)
Deposition of calcium in the renal parenchyma, resulting from high levels of calcium in the blood and/or urine.
(Nephrocalcinosis, NCI Thesaurus)
A non-metastasizing neoplasm that arises from the lung parenchyma or the bronchi.
(Benign Lung Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
A general term that refers to hyperplastic proliferations of the epithelial cells in the breast parenchyma.
(Breast Hyperplasia, NCI Thesaurus)
A neoplastic process that arises from the terminal ductal lobular unit of the breast parenchyma.
(Atypical ductal breast hyperplasia, NCI Thesaurus)
A non-metastasizing neoplasm that arises from the breast parenchyma in females.
(Benign Female Breast Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
A benign, nodular neoplasm that arises from the breast parenchyma.
(Benign Breast Adenomyoepithelioma, NCI Thesaurus)
A primitive neuroectodermal tumor (small round blue cell tumor) of the thorax which can involve the periosteum, thoracic wall and/or pleura though it spares the lung parenchyma.
(Askin Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)
A general term that refers to atypical hyperplastic proliferations of the epithelial cells in the breast parenchyma.
(Atypical Hyperplasia of the Breast, NCI Thesaurus)
