Parenchyma

Definitions: Parenchyma

Parenchyma

Noun

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

2. 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.

Date "parenchyma" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references)

Etymology: Parenchyma \Pa*ren"chy*ma\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression, from to pour in beside; beside in to pour: compare to the French expression parenchyme.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Parenchyma

Domain	Definitions
Biology & Biotechnology	A tissue composed of cells that are typically brick-shaped or isodiametric and have simple pits; in wood, formed a)from fusiform cambial initials by later transverse divisions of the daughter cells(axial parenchyma)or b)from ray cambial initials(ray parenchyma). Source: European Union. (references)
Health	The essential elements of an organ; used in anatomical nomenclature as a general term to designate the functional elements of an organ, as distinguished from its framework, or stroma. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: Parenchyma

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
MATERIALITY	Matter, body, substance, brute matter, stuff, element, principle, parenchyma, material, substratum, hyle, corpus, pabulum; frame.
Texture	Substance, stuff, compages, parenchyma; constitution, staple, organism.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Parenchyma

English words defined with "parenchyma": Gum passages ♦ Isodiametric ♦ leaf miner ♦ Mesophyllum ♦ nephrocalcinosis ♦ Palisade cells, Palmatisected, Parenchymal, Parenchymous, Pinenchyma, Plerome, pneumonia ♦ Rose slug ♦ Sclerotic parenchyma, Skeletonizer, Sphaerenchyma, stroma. (references)

Specialty definitions using "parenchyma": abaxial parenchyma, adaxial parenchyma ♦ Carcinoma, Renal Cell ♦ epithelial layer ♦ Fascioloidiasis, Fibrocystic Disease of Breast ♦ heart center, heart centre ♦ medullar ray, medullary spot ♦ Peliosis Hepatis, pith fleck, pith ray, pith ray fleck ♦ reticulate parenchyma, rhomboidal crystal, ripewood ♦ scanty parenchyma ♦ thylosis, truewood ♦ unilaterally paratracheal parenchyma. (references)

Etymologies containing "parenchyma": Angienchyma ♦ Bothrenchyma ♦ Collenchyma ♦ Merenchyma, Mesenchyma ♦ Pinenchyma, Pleurenchyma, Prosenchyma ♦ Sclerenchyma ♦ Taphrenchyma, Trachenchyma. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Parenchyma

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Stimulation of residual salivary parenchyma to produce more saliva. (references)
		Capillaria hepatica adult worms reside in the liver of various animals, especially rats. The females produce eggs that are retained in the liver parenchyma. (references)
		During the acute phase (caused by the migration of the immature fluke through the hepatic parenchyma), manifestations include abdominal pain, hepatomegaly, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, urticaria and eosinophilia, and can last for months. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Parenchyma

"Parenchyma" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Parenchyma" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	17	85,106

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Parenchyma

Expressions using "parenchyma": abaxial parenchyma ♦ adaxial parenchyma ♦ reticulate parenchyma ♦ scanty parenchyma ♦ sclerotic parenchyma ♦ unilaterally paratracheal parenchyma. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Parenchyma

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
parenchyma	25
breast parenchyma	3
lung parenchyma	3
cell parenchyma	3
brain parenchyma	2
parenchyma renal	2
liver parenchyma	2
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Modern Translations: Parenchyma

Language		Translations for "parenchyma"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏نسيج الرئة الأسفنجي, ‏نصل الورقة النباتية, ‏اللحمة (weft), ‏البرنشيمة النسيج الحشوي. (various references)

Bulgarian		паренхим. (various references)

Chinese		�"膜组织. (various references)

Danish		parenkym (soft tissue, storage tissue). (various references)

Dutch		parenchym (soft tissue, storage tissue). (various references)

Finnish		parenkyymisolukko (soft tissue, storage tissue), parenkyymi (soft tissue, storage tissue), tylppysolukko (soft tissue, storage tissue). (various references)

French		parenchyme. (various references)

German		Parenchym (soft tissue, storage tissue). (various references)

Greek		παρέγχυμα (soft tissue, storage tissue). (various references)

Hungarian		sejtszövet. (various references)

Italian		parenchima (soft tissue, storage tissue). (various references)

Pig Latin		arenchymapay

Portuguese		paregórico, parênquima (parent, soft tissue, storage tissue), parênquima, tecido parenquimatoso (soft tissue, storage tissue), tecido de depósito (soft tissue, storage tissue). (various references)

Romanian		parenchim. (various references)

Russian		паренхима. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		parenhim. (various references)

Spanish		parénquima (soft tissue, storage tissue). (various references)

Swedish		parenkym (soft tissue, storage tissue). (various references)

Turkish		parenkima, kanserli doku, özel doku. (various references)

Ukranian		паренхіма. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Parenchyma

Derivations
	Words beginning with "parenchyma": parenchymal, parenchymas, parenchymata, parenchymatous. (additional references)
	Words ending with "parenchyma": pseudoparenchyma. (additional references)
	Words containing "parenchyma": pseudoparenchymas, pseudoparenchymata, pseudoparenchymatous. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Parenchyma" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: parenchyme, parencyhmal, perenchyma. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Parenchyma"

Words rhyming with "parenchyma" (pronounced 'Pa*ren"chy*ma'): Aboma, Aceldama, Adenoma, Adipoma, Agama, Amalgama, Amma, Amphiuma, Analemma, Anathema, Angienchyma, Anhima, Arapaima, Aroma, Asthma, Atheroma, Bema, Blastema, Bothrenchyma, BRAHMA, Brama, Branchiostoma, Bregma, Broma, Cauma, Ceroma, Chacma, Chiloma, Chloasma, Chondroma, Cima, Collenchyma, Coloboma, Comma, Cosmorama, Croma, Cyclorama, Cytoblastema, Diastema, Diatryma, Digamma, Dilemma, Diorama, Diploma, Distoma, Dogma, Drachma, Drama, Ecphonema, Ecthyma, Eczema, Edriophthalma, Emphysema, Empyema, Empyreuma, Encauma, Enchondroma, Enchylemma, Enchyma, Endophragma, Endoplasma, Endostoma, Endyma, Enema, Enigma, Ependyma, Epiblema, Epichirema, Epiphonema, Epithelioma, Epithema, Erythema, Exanthema, fibroma, GAMMA, gemma, Georama, Glama, Glaucoma, Glioma, Gnathostoma, Gorma, gumma, Gyroma, Haematotherma, Helicotrema, hematoma, Hematotherma, Hyalonema, Hypermyriorama, Hypoderma, Idioplasma, Kaama, karma, Karyoplasma, Kokama, Kytoplasma, Lecama, lemma, Lepisma, leucoma, Lima, lipoma, llama, Loma, Lucuma, lymphoma, magma, mahatma, Marinorama, melanoma, melasma, Melastoma, Melisma, Merenchyma, Mesenchyma, miasma, Monothalama, mycoderma, Myocomma, Myolemma, Myoma, Myriorama, Myxoedema, Myxoma, Neorama, Neurilemma, Neuroma, NORMA, Nototrema, Nucleoidioplasma, OEdema, -oma, Oreosoma, Osteocomma, Osteoma, Osteosarcoma, Ovoplasma, Paguma, Palama, Panorama, Panstereorama, Papilloma, Paraphagma, Pelioma, Pelma, Penultima, Perisoma, Peristoma, Phantasma, Phyma, Pinenchyma, PLASMA, Pleurenchyma, Pleurosigma, Pleurotoma, Pluma, Polyorama, Programma, Prophragma, Prosenchyma, Prosoma, Protonema, Pseudostoma, Pterostigma, Pyjama, Quadragesima, Quinquagesima, Regma, Rhinoscleroma, Rhizoma, Rhusma, rima, Rusma, sarcolemma, sarcoma, schema, Schisma, Sclerema, Sclerenchyma, scleroderma, Scleroma, Scotoma, Scyphistoma, Septuagesima, seriema, Sexagesima, Shama, SIGMA, sima, smegma, soma, Soorma, Sorema, Spermatogemma, Spermoplasma, Sphaerenchyma, squama, Staphyloma, Steatoma, Stemma, stigma, stoma, stroma, struma, Synonyma, Syrma, Talma, Taphrenchyma, teratoma, Terma, Theobroma, Tirma, Trachenchyma, trachoma, Trama, Trilemma, Tristoma, Tucuma, Uzema, Xanthoma, Xeroderma, Yama, Yamma, Zeugma, Zygoma. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Parenchyma

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-h-m-n-p-r-y"
	-1 letter: marchpane.
	-2 letters: pharmacy, rampancy.
	-3 letters: anarchy, champer, chapman, chapmen, eparchy, hanaper, marchen, nymphae, panache, preachy.
	-4 letters: anarch, apache, arcane, camera, camper, canape, canary, carman, carmen, carney, cayman, champy, creamy, cypher, encamp, eparch, hamper, hyaena, manche, mayhap, napery, nympha, peachy, pechan, prance, preach, preman, raphae.
	-5 letters: anear, apace, apery, apnea, areca, arena, arpen, campy, caner, caper, carny, champ, chape, chare, charm, chary, cheap, chyme, cramp, crane, crape, cream, crepy, cymae, cymar, hance, harem, harpy, hayer, hempy, henry, herma, hyena, hymen, hyper, macer, mache, march, mayan, meany, mercy, mynah, nacre, namer, nymph, pacer, pacha, paean, parae, parch, payer, peach, pecan, perch, praam, pyran, ramen, rance, ranch, raphe, rayah, reach, recap, reman, remap, repay, rhyme, yamen, yearn.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-h-m-n-p-r-y"
	+1 letter: parenchymal, parenchymas.
	+2 letters: parenchymata.
	+4 letters: cinematography, parenchymatous.
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