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What does parenchymatous mean?

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Adjective
  1. (medicine) Alternative form of parenchymal
  2. (botany) Related to parenchyma.
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This form of tonsillitis is very frequent, and is often confounded with parenchymatous tonsillitis or with tonsillar abscess.
In another class of cases of tonsillitis the inflammatory process may be chiefly parenchymatous, for rarely is it wholly so.
So the parenchymatous cells of the cortex lying outside the sclerenchymatous ring are divided into small isolated areas.
This parenchymatous mass consists of oval cells filled with fatty matter and granules of aleurone.
The kidneys may appear normal or anemic and flaccid, but microscopically they usually show a chronic parenchymatous degeneration.
In plant roots with other types of aerenchyma, lateral root primordia or bases are always surrounded by solid parenchymatous tissue.

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