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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.

n. the tissue structure of an organ, etc., that serves to support it

n.

n. The connective tissue or supporting framework of an organ.

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

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

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.

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)

"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."

plant tissue    animal tissue   

cancer stroma    stroma of the ovary    intertubular stroma    stroma fibrin    stroma of red blood-corpuscles   

stromata   

Oklahoma    Roma    Soma    Sonoma    Tacoma    aroma    blastoma    carcinoma    coma    diploma   

microenvironment    hyperplasia    endothelium    cytoplasm    epithelium    inoperable    adenocarcinoma    stippling    metastasis    atypia