Stroma
Stroma may refer to:
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Biology
- Stroma (tissue), the connective, functionally supportive framework of a biological cell, tissue, or organ (in contrast, the parenchyma is the functional aspect of a tissue)
- Stroma of ovary, a soft tissue, well supplied with blood, consisting of spindle-shaped cells with a small amount of connective tissue
- Stroma of iris, fibres and cells in the iris
- Stroma of cornea, plates of collagen fibrils in the cornea
- Lymph node stromal cell, cells which provide a scaffold for other lymph node cells
- Stroma of bone marrow
- Stroma (fungus), a tissue structure of some ascomycete mushrooms
- Stroma (fluid), the fluid between grana, where carbohydrate-forming reactions occur in the chloroplasts of photosynthetic plant cells
- Stromal cell, a connective tissue cell of any organ; supports the function of the parenchyma
- The nonmalignant cells which are present in the tumor microenvironment; see Tumor microenvironment ยง Stromal cells
People
- Freddie Stroma (born 1987), British actor known for playing Cormac McLaggen in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Stroma Buttrose (born 1929), Australian architect
Other
- Stroma (musical group), a New Zealand chamber music ensemble
- Island of Stroma, a now uninhabited island off the northern coast of Scotland
See also
- Stromae (born 1985), Belgian singer
- Struma (disambiguation)
- Stromatolite, ayered sedimentary structure formed by the growth of bacteria or algae
- Stromer (disambiguation)
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