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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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In another class of cases of tonsillitis the inflammatory process may be chiefly parenchymatous, for rarely is it wholly so.
Superficial glossitis, however, sometimes terminates in parenchymatous glossitis.
The changes are mainly of a parenchymatous or catarrhal rather than an interstitial nature, the epithelium being disposed to shed.
The kidneys may appear normal or anemic and flaccid, but microscopically they usually show a chronic parenchymatous degeneration.
Ultrastructurally, parenchymatous cell walls are coalified, whereas microcrystalline pyrite plus coalified material were observed within lignified cell walls.
In this condition the pancreas may be the seat of either acute parenchymatous inflammation or of metastatic abscesses.

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