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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PARENCHYMA

Via New Latin from Greek parenkhuma something poured in beside, from para-1 + enkhuma infusion.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PARENCHYMA

parenchyma  [pəˈrɛŋkɪmə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PARENCHYMA

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Parenchyma is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PARENCHYMA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Parenchyma

Parenchyma is the bulk of a substance. In animals, a parenchyma comprises the functional parts of an organ and in plants parenchyma is the ground tissue of nonwoody structures. The term parenchyma is New Latin, f. Greek παρέγχυμα - parenkhuma, "visceral flesh", f. παρεγχεῖν - parenkhein, "to pour in" f. para-, "beside" + en-, "in" + khein, "to pour". Look up parenchyma in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Definition of parenchyma in the English dictionary

The first definition of parenchyma in the dictionary is unspecialized plant tissue consisting of simple thin-walled cells with intervening air spaces: constitutes the greater part of fruits, stems, roots, etc. Other definition of parenchyma is animal tissue that constitutes the essential or specialized part of an organ as distinct from the blood vessels, connective tissue, etc, associated with it. Parenchyma is also loosely-packed tissue filling the spaces between the organs in lower animals such as flatworms.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PARENCHYMA


aerenchyma
ɛəˈrɛŋkɪmə
aimer
ˈeɪmə
anima
ˈænɪmə
chlorenchyma
kləˈrɛŋkɪmə
cinema
ˈsɪnɪmə
climber
ˈklaɪmə
collenchyma
kəˈlɛŋkɪmə
disclaimer
dɪsˈkleɪmə
Fatima
ˈfætɪmə
gamer
ˈɡeɪmə
maxima
ˈmæksɪmə
minima
ˈmɪnɪmə
polymer
ˈpɒlɪmə
primer
ˈpraɪmə
prosenchyma
prɒsˈɛŋkɪmə
sclerenchyma
sklɪəˈrɛŋkɪmə
skimmer
ˈskɪmə
timer
ˈtaɪmə
ultima
ˈʌltɪmə
Zimmer
ˈzɪmə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PARENCHYMA

paren.
parenchymal
parenchymatous
parenesis
parent
parent body
parent company
parent group
parent metal
parent teacher association
parent tree
parent-teacher meeting
parentage
parental
parental leave
parentally
parenteral
parenterally
parentheses
parenthesis

WORDS THAT END LIKE PARENCHYMA

Alabama
alma
anonyma
contagious ecthyma
cyma
drama
ecthyma
emma
ependyma
etyma
Kolyma
lama
Lima
ma
mama
Nama
Obama
Oklahoma
rhinophyma
tryma

Synonyms and antonyms of parenchyma in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «parenchyma» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PARENCHYMA

Find out the translation of parenchyma to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of parenchyma from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «parenchyma» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

实质
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

parénquima
570 millions of speakers

English

parenchyma
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पैरेन्काइमा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حمة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

паренхимы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

parênquima
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

parenchyma
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

parenchyme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Parenchyma
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Parenchym
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

実質
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

실질
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Parenchyma
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhu mô
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பாரன்கிமாவிற்கு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पॅरेन्कायमा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

parenkima
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

parenchima
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

miąższu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

паренхіми
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

parenchimul
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παρέγχυμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

parenchiem
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

parenkymet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

parenkymet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of parenchyma

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PARENCHYMA»

The term «parenchyma» is regularly used and occupies the 66.303 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PARENCHYMA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «parenchyma» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «parenchyma» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about parenchyma

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARENCHYMA»

Discover the use of parenchyma in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to parenchyma and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Esau's Plant Anatomy: Meristems, Cells, and Tissues of the ...
The term parenchyma refers to a tissue composed of living cells variable in their morphology and physiology, but generally having thin walls and a polyhedral shape (Fig. 7.1), and concerned with vegetative activities of the plant. The individual ...
Ray F. Evert, 2006
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Teaching Plant Anatomy Through Creative Laboratory Exercises
Parenchyma cells are the basic cell type in plants and are the type from which other cell types develop during differentiation processes. Some details of this cell type are summarized in Box 6. Parenchyma cells have a thin primary cell wall, ...
R. Larry Peterson, Carol A. Peterson, Lewis H. Melville, 2008
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Anatomy and Physiology: Understanding the Human Body
Parenchyma. and. Stroma: Useful. Concepts. Let's think about your school for a minute. What is the actual function of your school? Educating students would be a pretty good answer, although it may also have other functions. Who among the  ...
Robert K. Clark, 2005
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Comparative Wood Anatomy: Systematic, Ecological, and ...
enunciated for apotracheal parenchyma types, namely, that formation of more massive parenchyma sheets forming fewer but larger contacts between axial and radial parenchyma systems represents a phyletic advance promoting more ...
Sherwin Carlquist, 2001
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Handbook of Plant Science
One type of synthetic parenchyma is the chlorophyll-rich, photosynthetic chlorenchyma cell. The main function of these cells is to conduct photosynthesis, that is, capture and convert light energy into chemical energy stored in the bonds of ...
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An Introduction to Plant Structure and Development: Plant ...
Note the clusters of plasmodesmata connecting adjacent vascular parenchyma cells (VP), a bundle sheath cell (BS) and a vascular parenchyma cell, a bundle sheath cell and a phloem parenchyma cell (PHP), a xylem parenchyma cell (XP)  ...
Charles B. Beck, 2010
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Physiology of Woody Plants
Earlywood and latewood tracheids of pine. a: Intertracheid bordered pits; b: Bordered pits to ray tracheids, c: Pinoid pits to ray parenchyma. Photo courtesy of U.S. Forest Service. torus is pushed against the pit border) or when a pit membrane ...
Stephen G. Pallardy, 2010
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Understanding Wood: A Craftsman's Guide to Wood Technology
PARENCHYMA Because of their small size, parenchyma cells are individually indiscernible even with a hand lens. In cross section, numbers of parenchyma cells arranged as lines or characteristically shaped patches may show up as ...
R. Bruce Hoadley, 2000
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Biology of Turbellaria: Experimental Advances
The bipolar form of neoblasts in situ seen in the histological sections of the intact parenchyma was learned as their active mobile form by the observation of the isolated neoblasts in vitro. And yet, the neoblasts in the intact parenchyma do not  ...
Jacob Shapira, 1973
10
Atlas of Mammography
Asymmetry of the parenchyma is a common finding on mammography, and it is observed when the same mam- mographic views are visualized together as mirror images. The observation of asymmetry may be related to a greater degree of ...
Ellen Shaw De Paredes, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PARENCHYMA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term parenchyma is used in the context of the following news items.
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Fetal hematopoietic stem cells express MFG-E8 during mouse …
At E11.5, we found many prominent colonies of eosinophilic and nucleate cells over the entire fetal liver parenchyma (Supplementary Figure 1 ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
2
European Commission Approves Merck's Anti-PD-1 Therapy …
... myositis, pancreatitis, hemolytic anemia, partial seizures arising in a patient with inflammatory foci in brain parenchyma, adrenal insufficiency, ... «PipelineReview.com, Jul 15»
3
Molecular could boost the yield for an alternative desert rubber plant
Under the bark is soft layer called parenchyma. You can use it to make rubber, and that means you can make wetsuits, condoms, gloves, ... «Next Big Future, Jul 15»
4
DPP4 in anti-tumor immunity: going beyond the enzyme
... enhances chemokine CXCL10–mediated infiltration of lymphocytes into the tumor parenchyma, which results in diminished tumor growth. «Nature.com, Jul 15»
5
Researchers use iPSCs to explore new treatments for kidney disease
In the ideal situation, renal progenitors would be transplanted directly into the kidney parenchyma, but this is never a simple problem. «News-Medical.net, Jul 15»
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Collapsing focal segmental glomerulosclerosis following long-term …
The rest of renal parenchyma showed mild interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy, mild and scattered predominantly mononuclear interstitial, ... «BMC Blogs Network, Jul 15»
7
Induced pluripotent stem cells show promise for kidney treatment
In the ideal situation, renal progenitors would be transplanted directly into the kidney parenchyma, but this is never a simple problem. «Medical Xpress, Jul 15»
8
Medical University of South Carolina/Bristol-Myers Squibb …
Tubulointerstitial renal fibrosis is characterized as a progressive detrimental connective tissue deposition on the kidney parenchyma — the ... «Pulmonary Fibrosis News, Jul 15»
9
Low-dose oxytocin delivered intranasally with Breath Powered …
A paravascular pathway facilitates CSF flow through the brain parenchyma and the clearance of interstitial solutes, including amyloid β. «Nature.com, Jul 15»
10
The Superplant That May Finally Topple the Rubber Monopoly
This is called parenchyma. You can use it to make rubber, and that means you can make wetsuits, condoms, gloves, catheters, angioplasty ... «Wired, Jul 15»

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