parenchymatous, a.
(pærɛŋˈkɪmətəs)
[f. Gr. παρέγχυµα, παρεγχυµατ- (see prec.) + -ous.]
1. Anat. and Zool. a. Consisting of or having the nature of parenchyma (sense 1); spec. applied to intestinal worms whose bodies are composed of solid parenchyma with no visceral cavity.
| 1667 Phil. Trans. II. 498 Their Liver is of a dark Green, inclining to black, and Parenchymatous. 1766 Underwood ibid. LVII. 5 Under this kind of parenchymatous substance..was a muscular mass. 1835 Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. I. xi. 319 The Parenchymatous intestinal worms of Cuvier. 1835–6 Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 19/2 The abdominal viscera may be subdivided into the membranous and the parenchymatous. |
b. Of or belonging to the parenchyma of an organ; occurring in or affecting the parenchyma.
| 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 88 Parenchymatous or deep-seated inflammation..distinguished from meningic. 1866 A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 54 The cells in inflamed parts undergo parenchymatous degeneration. 1876 tr. Wagner's Gen. Path. 210 Parenchymatous hæmorrhages. |
2. Bot. Consisting, or having the nature, of parenchyma (sense 2); of or belonging to the parenchyma.
| 1791 Hamilton Berthollet's Dyeing II. ii. iii. i. 112 The..ligneous parts are more easily pounded than the parenchymatous parts. 1861 Bentley Man. Bot. (ed. 2) 7 Cells have been divided into parenchymatous and prosenchymatous; parenchymatous being..applied to those cells which are placed end to end; and prosenchymatous to those which are attenuated, and overlap one another,..but various transitional states occur which render it impossible to draw..a distinct line of demarcation between them. 1884 Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 517 Narrow ligneous bundles are separated..by broad parenchymatous medullary rays. |
Hence parenˈchymatously adv.
| 1834 Therapeutic Gaz. VIII. 555 The injection of tincture of iodine parenchymatously is dangerous in cases where the growth is very vascular. |