parenchyma

parenchyma
parenchymal, parenchymatous /par'euhng kim"euh teuhs/, adj.
/peuh reng"keuh meuh/, n.
1. Bot. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
2. Anat., Zool. the specific tissue of an animal organ as distinguished from its connective or supporting tissue.
3. Zool. a type of soft, spongy connective tissue of certain invertebrates, as the flatworms.
4. Pathol. the functional tissue of a morbid growth.
[1645-55; < NL < Gk parénchyma lit., something poured in beside, equiv. to par- PAR- + énchyma infusion; see EN-2, CHYME]

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▪ plant tissue
      in plants, tissue typically composed of living cells that are thin-walled, unspecialized in structure, and therefore adaptable, with differentiation, to various functions. Parenchyma may be compact or have extensive spaces between the cells. It is often called ground, or fundamental, tissue and makes up the mesophyll (internal layers) of leaves and the cortex (outer layers) and pith (innermost layers) of stems and roots; it also forms the soft tissues of fruits. Cells of this type are also contained in xylem (wood) and phloem (bast, or food-conducting, cells) as transfer cells (see phloem) and, with both xylem and phloem as bundle sheaths, the cells that surround the vascular strands.

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