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/pəˈɹɛŋ.kɪm.ə/ · noun
(anatomy) The functional tissue of an organ as distinguished from the connective and supporting tissue..
Previously blood and air had been thought to mingle freely in the fleshy parenchyma of the lungs, but the microscope now revealed the membranous alveoli at the ends of the tracheo-bronchial ramifications.
[I]n a Sponge, the Parenchyma, it seems, is but a kind of mucous gelly, which is very easily and cleerly wash'd away.
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Parenchyma means (anatomy) The functional tissue of an organ as distinguished from the connective and supporting tissue..
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Possible antonyms include stroma.
Previously blood and air had been thought to mingle freely in the fleshy parenchyma of the lungs, but the microscope now revealed the membranous alveoli at the ends of the tracheo-bronchial ramifications.
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