This article is about parenchyma in animals including humans. For information specific to plants, see Ground tissue § Parenchyma.
Not to be confused with Paronychium.
Lung parenchyma showing damage due to large subpleural bullae.
Parenchyma (/pəˈrɛŋkɪmə/)[1][2] is the bulk of functional substance in an animal organ or structure such as a tumour. In zoology, it is the name for the tissue that fills the interior of flatworms.
Parenchyma (/pəˈrɛŋkɪmə/) is the bulk of functional substance in an animal organ or structure such as a tumour. In zoology, it is the name for the tissue...
bulk of the plant body. Parenchyma cells have thin primary walls and usually remain alive after they become mature. Parenchyma forms the "filler" tissue...
The liver is a major metabolic organ only found in vertebrate animals, which performs many essential biological functions such as detoxification of the...
in their vascular bundles, leaves are composed mainly of parenchyma cells. Some parenchyma cells, as in the epidermis, are specialized for light penetration...
Palisade cells, or palisade mesophyll cells are plant cells located inside the mesophyll of most green leaves. They are vertically elongated and are stacked...
tissue in the stems of vascular plants. Pith is composed of soft, spongy parenchyma cells, which in some cases can store starch. In eudicotyledons, pith is...
Aerenchyma or aeriferous parenchyma or lacunae, is a modification of the parenchyma to form a spongy tissue that creates spaces or air channels in the...
This glossary of mycology is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to mycology, the study of fungi. Terms in common with other fields, if...
Nodular parenchyma is a small mass of tissue within a gland or organ that carries out the specialized functions of the gland or organ. Nodular parenchyma entry...
a cambium forms, but it produces vascular bundles and parenchyma internally and just parenchyma externally. Some monocot stems increase in diameter due...
thereby releasing toxins that cause inflammation and edema of the lung parenchyma. This leads to the accumulation of cellular debris within the lungs. This...
level where a leaf trace diverges toward a leaf. This gap is filled with parenchyma tissue". answers.com Little, R. John; Jones, C. Eugene, eds. (1980). A...
arteries and arterioles. They transmigrate sinus endothelium and enter the parenchyma which contains dendritic cells (DCs). These have a capacity of antigen...
periphery, or can occur as single cells or small groups of cells within parenchyma tissues. An isolated sclereid cell is known as an idioblast. Sclereids...
stroke, is a sudden bleeding into the tissues of the brain (i.e. the parenchyma), into its ventricles, or into both. An ICH is a type of bleeding within...
tissue consists of conducting cells, generally called sieve elements, parenchyma cells, including both specialized companion cells or albuminous cells...
the zygote, gives rise to the many different plant cell types including parenchyma, xylem vessel elements, phloem sieve tubes, guard cells of the epidermis...
Click here to scroll through the image stacks. This type of investigation can be used for detecting both acute and chronic changes in the lung parenchyma....
bleeding contained within liver parenchyma IV 25–75% of a hepatic lobe Active bleeding extending beyond the liver parenchyma into the peritoneum V >75% of...
roots Plant stem: Vascular bundles Numerous scattered bundles in ground parenchyma, cambium rarely present, no differentiation between cortical and stelar...
made by reticular cells provide the stroma—or structural support—for the parenchyma (that is, the bulk of functional substance) of the organ.: 171 Mesenchyme...
and transverse muscles surround the central parenchyma. Protonephridial cells drain into the parenchyma. There are four longitudinal collection canals...
denser than air, such as pus, blood, or protein, which lingers within the parenchyma of the lungs. Pulmonary infiltrates are associated with pneumonia, tuberculosis...
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