Parenchyma's a term used to describe a bulk of a substance. It's used in different ways in animals and in plants. The term's New Latin, from Greek parenkhuma, visceral flesh, from parenkhein, to pour in beside : para-, beside + en-, in + khein, to pour. In animals The parenchyma are the functional parts of an organ in the body. This's in contrast to the stroma, which refers to the structural tissue of organs, being exactly, connective tissues. In cancer, the parenchyma refers to the actual mu… (More on Parenchyma)