PARENCHYMA

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Animal tissue that constitutes the essential part of an organ as contrasted with e.g. connective tissue and blood vessels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("parenchyma" is a kind of...):

animal tissue (the tissue in the bodies of animals)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The primary tissue of higher plants composed of thin-walled cells that remain capable of cell division even when mature; constitutes the greater part of leaves, roots, the pulp of fruits, and the pith of stems

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("parenchyma" is a kind of...):

plant tissue (the tissue of a plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parenchyma"):

chlorenchyma (parenchyma whose cells contain chloroplasts)

Holonyms ("parenchyma" is a substance of...):

flesh; pulp (a soft moist part of a fruit)

pith (soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants)

root ((botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground)

foliage; leaf; leafage (the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants)

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Context examples:

It is characterized by the presence of malignant signet ring cells infiltrating the pancreatic parenchyma in an individual cell pattern.

(Pancreatic Signet Ring Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare, reactive lesion in the lung parenchyma.

(Nodular Lymphoid Hyperplasia of Lung, NCI Thesaurus)

Deposition of calcium in the renal parenchyma, resulting from high levels of calcium in the blood and/or urine.

(Nephrocalcinosis, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-metastasizing neoplasm that arises from the lung parenchyma or the bronchi.

(Benign Lung Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A general term that refers to hyperplastic proliferations of the epithelial cells in the breast parenchyma.

(Breast Hyperplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

A neoplastic process that arises from the terminal ductal lobular unit of the breast parenchyma.

(Atypical ductal breast hyperplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-metastasizing neoplasm that arises from the breast parenchyma in females.

(Benign Female Breast Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign, nodular neoplasm that arises from the breast parenchyma.

(Benign Breast Adenomyoepithelioma, NCI Thesaurus)

A primitive neuroectodermal tumor (small round blue cell tumor) of the thorax which can involve the periosteum, thoracic wall and/or pleura though it spares the lung parenchyma.

(Askin Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

A general term that refers to atypical hyperplastic proliferations of the epithelial cells in the breast parenchyma.