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Stroma   /strˈoʊmə/   Listen
Stroma

noun
(pl. stromata)
1.
A mass of fungal tissue that has spore-bearing structures embedded in it or on it.
2.
The dense colorless framework of a chloroplast.
3.
The supporting tissue of an organ (as opposed to parenchyma).





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"Stroma" Quotes from Famous Books



... surrounding it, but there is a cell-free space of large size into which the ovum covered by follicular cells projects. In the wall of the follicle two layers are distinguished, the theca externa, which is more fibrous, and the theca interna, which is more cellular. In the connective tissue stroma of the ovary between the follicles are scattered, or in some cases aggregated, epithelioid cells known as the interstitial cells, and it is stated that the cells of the theca interna are exactly similar to the interstitial cells. According to Limon [Footnote: Arch. d'Anat. micr., v., 1902.] ...
— Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham


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