MESENCHYME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mesenchyme mean? 

• MESENCHYME (noun)
  The noun MESENCHYME has 1 sense:

1. mesodermal tissue that forms connective tissue and blood and smooth muscles

  Familiarity information: MESENCHYME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MESENCHYME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mesodermal tissue that forms connective tissue and blood and smooth muscles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("mesenchyme" is a kind of...):

mesoblast; mesoderm (the middle germ layer that develops into muscle and bone and cartilage and blood and connective tissue)

 Context examples 

A rare, pilar-associated mesenchyme neoplasm with follicular differentiation.

(Fibrofolliculoma, NCI Thesaurus)

LIF, secreted by ureteric bud cells, converts kidney mesenchyme to epithelia, which then forms nephrons.

(Leukemia Inhibitory Factor, NCI Thesaurus)

Using a technique called lineage tracing, scientists determined that theca cells in mice come from both inside and outside the ovary, from embryonic tissue called mesenchyme.

(Study solves ovarian cell mystery, shedding new light on reproductive disorders, NIH)

Primitive blood cells derived from embryonic mesenchyme capable of differentiating into any of the blood cell line progenitor cells (erythroblasts, young granulocytic series cells, megakaryocytes, etc.)

(Murine Stem Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

A finding of congenital malformations in both kidneys characterized by the presence of cysts of various sizes, primitive ducts, islands of metaplastic cartilage and undifferentiated mesenchyme, and the absence of cortico-medullary demarcation.

(Bilateral Renal Dysplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

Primitive blood cells residing in the bone marrow, derived from embryonic mesenchyme, and capable of differentiating into any of the blood cell line progenitor cells (erythroblasts, young granulocytic series cells, megakaryocytes, etc.)

(Bone Marrow Stem Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

Connective Tissue Alteration involves a qualitative change in the existing state of supporting tissue derived from mesenchyme that binds other tissues and consists of various cell types embedded in a fibrous and ground substance extracellular matrix.

(Connective Tissue Alteration, NCI Thesaurus)

The supporting or framework tissue of the animal body, formed of fibrous and ground substance with more or less numerous cells of various kinds; it is derived from the mesenchyme, and this in turn from the mesoderm; the varieties of connective tissue are: areolar or loose; adipose; dense, regular or irregular, white fibrous; elastic; mucous; and lymphoid tissue; cartilage; and bone; the blood and lymph may be regarded as connective tissues the ground substance of which is a liquid.

(Connective tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

Interdependent positional signaling by the apical ectodermal ridge, the posterior mesenchyme zone of polarizing activity, and the non ridge ectoderm coordinate limb bud outgrowth and patterning, Limb Development, by migrated lateral plate mesoderm and somite cells.

(Limb Development, NCI Thesaurus)