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Parenchymatous

Parenchymatous \Par`en*chym"a*tous\, Parenchymous \Pa*ren"chy*mous\, a. [Cf. F. parenchymateux.] Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the parenchyma of a tissue or an organ; as, parenchymatous degeneration.

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parenchymatous

a. 1 (context medicine English) (alternative form of parenchymal English) 2 (context botany English) Related to parenchyma.

Usage examples of "parenchymatous".

The special arrangements of the vessels and the ducts of all the glands, of the air-tubes and vesicles of the lungs, of the parts which make up the skin and other membranes, all the details of those complex parenchymatous organs which had confounded investigation so long, have been lifted out of the invisible into the sight of all observers.