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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 tumor, which is often but not always associated with cystic lung lesions, may arise in pulmonary parenchyma, the mediastinum, and pleura.
The parenchyma in this species is much less visible than in Afara but otherwise they are very similar in structure.
In the vascular tissue of woody species, parenchyma cells include those in phloem, and the ray cells and axial parenchyma cells in xylem.
Droplets of extractives only appeared in the inner ring of sapwood in some cells of the ray parenchyma as small refringent bodies.
Serial transverse sections showed homogeneous pale red-brown parenchyma without discrete abnormality.
Types of paratracheal parenchyma are scanty paratracheal, vasicentric, aliform, confluent, and unilateral paratracheal.

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