Stroma Explained

Stroma should not be confused with Stoma.

Stroma may refer to:

Biology

Stroma (tissue), the connective, functionally supportive framework of a biological cell, tissue, or organ (in contrast, the parenchyma is the functional aspect of a tissue)
- Stroma of ovary, a soft tissue, well supplied with blood, consisting of spindle-shaped cells with a small amount of connective tissue
- Stroma of iris, fibres and cells in the iris
- Stroma of cornea, plates of collagen fibrils in the cornea
- Lymph node stromal cell, cells which provide a scaffold for other lymph node cells
- Stroma of bone marrow
- Stroma (fungus), a tissue structure of some ascomycete mushrooms
Stroma (fluid), the fluid between grana, where carbohydrate-forming reactions occur in the chloroplasts of photosynthetic plant cells
Stromal cell, a connective tissue cell of any organ; supports the function of the parenchyma
The nonmalignant cells which are present in the tumor microenvironment; see

Freddie Stroma (born 1987), British actor known for playing Cormac McLaggen in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Stroma Buttrose (born 1929), Australian architect