Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The connective tissue framework of an organ, gland, or other structure, as distinguished from the tissues performing the special function of the organ or part.
- n. The spongy, colorless framework of a red blood cell or other cell.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In anatomy: The sustentacular tissue or substance of a part or organ, usually of connective tissue.
- n. In botany: In fungi, a variously shaped more or less continuous layer of cellular tissue, in which perithecia or other organs of fructification are immersed. Sometimes called receptacle. See cut under ergot.
- n. In vegetable physiology, the solid matter remaining after all the fluid has been expressed from protoplasm.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The connective tissue or supporting framework of an organ.
- n. The spongy, colorless framework of a red blood corpuscle or other cell.
- n. (Bot.) A layer or mass of cellular tissue, especially that part of the thallus of certain fungi which incloses the perithecia.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the dense colorless framework of a chloroplast
- n. a mass of fungal tissue that has spore-bearing structures embedded in it or on it
- n. the supporting tissue of an organ (as opposed to parenchyma)
Etymologies
- From Latin stromat- ("bed covering"), from Ancient Greek στρώμα (strōma, "bed"), from στόρνυμι (stornymi, "to stretch out") (Wiktionary)
- Late Latin strōma, mattress, covering, from Greek, bed. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“After age 40, the changes in the breasts become more pronounced, as fatty tissue begins to replace the supportive, fibrous tissue known as the stroma, and skin starts to sag more — regardless of whether a woman has had kids, and nursed them, or not.”
“The stroma is a peculiar soft tissue, abundantly supplied with bloodvessels, consisting for the most part of spindle-shaped cells with a small amount of ordinary connective tissue.”
“Fibroblasts are found in connective tissue, which includes cartilage and the cellular matrix known as stroma that provides support to body structures, such as organs, glands and also tumors.”
“Then the scientists add supporting cells - known as stroma - and various factors that mimic their natural environment, positioning them where they can most effectively support the liver cells.”
“Few years ago, Funderburgh and his colleagues identified stem cells in a layer of the cornea called the stroma, and they recently showed that even after many rounds of expansion in the lab, these cells continued to produce the biochemical components, or matrix, of the cornea.”
“A few years ago, Dr. Funderburgh and other University of Pittsburgh researchers identified stem cells in a layer of the cornea called the stroma, and they recently showed that even after many rounds of expansion in the lab, these cells continued to produce the biochemical components, or matrix, of the cornea.”
“Grana are connected to each other & surrounded by a gel-like material called stroma”
“Thylakoid disks are stacked separate compartments also called the stroma participants in the light-independent reactions none of these”
“The substance of the cell nucleus then remains behind with some of the associated "stroma", as an insoluble mass.”
“From this germ epithelium strings of cells grow out into the connective tissue or "stroma" of the ovary (Figure 2.403 b).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stroma’.
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EN - fine scholarly language
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SCIE - Be the first...
... to use these words in spoken English and reap esteem. In the SPOKEN corpus of the COCA (full corpus: 450 million words) none of these occur.
stochastic, disputant, state-led, almshouse, exceptionality, bibliographical, t-test, z-score, personal/social, neoplastic, stroma, ludic and 288 more...
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anatomy etcetera
Funny sounding things found in bodies. Might be split up into several lists later...
zona incerta, mucous membrane, secretomotor, tear film, tear sac, duodenum, horripilation, peduncle, pelvic outlet, canal of Schlemm, visceral, chromosomal cross... and 189 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 567 more...
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fungous
sugarcane smut, fruiting body, parenthesome, smut, loose smut, covered smut, coffee rust, soft rot, false loose smut, honey fungus, plasmogamy, foxfire and 48 more...
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liminal words
transformational, entryway words: thresh(hold), fresh relief
liminal, sill, threshold, aletheia, inscape, adit, introit, maze, pore, porism, portal, port and 114 more...
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tissue
parenchyma, cartilage, stroma, fascia, gristle, skin, xylem, keloid, cementum, ligament, dissepiment
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Cool Shroomy Words
axenic, ascomycetes, shroud, zonate, mycelium, mycorrhiza, stroma, sclerotium, saprophyte, umbonate, psylocybin, lamellae and 3 more...
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The Eyes Have It
parts of the human eye
iris, pupil, sclera, macula, retina, vitreous, conjunctiva, cornea, lens, choroid, optic nerve, ciliary body and 34 more...
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Science is Fun
parenchyma, stroma, fascia, mesenchyme, basophil, cytokine, opsonin
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