Stroma

Stroma may refer to:

  • Stroma (animal tissue), the connective, functionally supportive framework of a biological cell, tissue, or organ
    • 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
  • Stroma (fluid), the fluid in between grana, where carbohydrate-formation reactions occur in the chloroplasts of plant cells photosynthesizing
  • Stroma (mycology), the dense structural tissue that produces fruiting bodies; made of non-vegetative (asexual) hyphae
  • Stroma of ovary, a soft tissue, well supplied with blood, consisting of spindle-shaped cells with a small amount of connective tissue
  • Stroma, Scotland, an island off the northern coast of Scotland with an area of 3.75 square kilometers, no longer populated
  • Stromal cell, a connective tissue cell of any organ, supports the function of the parenchymal cells of that organ
  • Freddie Stroma (1987-), a British actor most well known for playing Cormac McLaggen in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince