STROMA
\stɹˈə͡ʊmə], \stɹˈəʊmə], \s_t_ɹ_ˈəʊ_m_ə]\
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The connective tissue or supporting framework of an organ; as, the stroma of the kidney.
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The spongy, colorless framework of a red blood corpuscle or other cell.
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A layer or mass of cellular tissue, especially that part of the thallus of certain fungi which incloses the perithecia.
By Oddity Software
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The transparent filmy framework of red blood corpuscles; connective tissue binding and supporting an organ; in the ovary, a soft, vascular, reticular framework in the meshes of which the ovarian follicles are imbedded; in. stromata, short protrusions from a sclerotium, each composed of hyphae, in which perithecia are developed, in some Thallophytes.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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The bed or foundation-texture of an organ,-as the stroma of the ovary. Applied, also, to the bed or base of any deposit- as the' amorphous stroma' of scrofulous deposits.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The tissue or combination of tissues forming the principal mass of an organ and serving as a kind of matrix or support for its special anatomical elements.
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The cell body of nucleated red blood corpuscles, or, in mammalian red blood corpuscles, the entire mass of the corpuscle exclusive of the coloring matter. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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