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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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There are large intercellular spaces between the irregular cells, and the parenchyma looks like aerenchyma.
A close-up reveals the alternating areas of sclerosis and retained hepatic parenchyma in this nutmeg liver.
Thus, elements of the guard cell's response to stress are present in mesophyll and xylem parenchyma cells.
Xylem and xylem parenchyma can be recognized in the centre of the taproot surrounded by a ring of meristematic tissue with very high intensity.
Types of paratracheal parenchyma are scanty paratracheal, vasicentric, aliform, confluent, and unilateral paratracheal.
Droplets of extractives only appeared in the inner ring of sapwood in some cells of the ray parenchyma as small refringent bodies.

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