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The connective tissue or supporting framework of an organ; as, the stroma of the kidney.

The spongy, colorless framework of a red blood corpuscle or other cell.

A layer or mass of cellular tissue, especially that part of the thallus of certain fungi which incloses the perithecia.

The framework, usually of connective tissue, of an organ, gland, or other structure; distinguished from the parenchyma, or specific substance, of the part.

Organic texture.

The groundwork of a tissue or organ.

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.

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.

Tissue which forms the ground-substance, framework, or matrix of an organ.

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.

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.]