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What does parenchyma mean?

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  1. (anatomy) The functional or specialized tissue of an organ, as opposed to stroma or connective tissue. [from 16th c.]
  2. (botany) The ground tissue making up most of the non-woody parts of a plant. [from 17th c.]
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The parenchyma in this species is much less visible than in Afara but otherwise they are very similar in structure.
A close-up reveals the alternating areas of sclerosis and retained hepatic parenchyma in this nutmeg liver.
The tumor, which is often but not always associated with cystic lung lesions, may arise in pulmonary parenchyma, the mediastinum, and pleura.
Types of paratracheal parenchyma are scanty paratracheal, vasicentric, aliform, confluent, and unilateral paratracheal.
There are large intercellular spaces between the irregular cells, and the parenchyma looks like aerenchyma.
In the vascular tissue of woody species, parenchyma cells include those in phloem, and the ray cells and axial parenchyma cells in xylem.

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