[
US
/ˈstɹoʊmə/
]
NOUN
- the supporting tissue of an organ (as opposed to parenchyma)
- the dense colorless framework of a chloroplast
- a mass of fungal tissue that has spore-bearing structures embedded in it or on it
How To Use stroma In A Sentence
- Thylakoids of grana stacks are mostly abundant in PSII complexes, while PSI complexes are predominant in stroma lamellae.
- Treatment of diabetic wounds with fetal murine mesenchymal stromal cells enhances wound closure. CHOP scarless fetal wound healing publications
- The stroma of the papillary fronds consisted of loose fibrous tissue with abundant, thin-walled, congested blood vessels.
- The cross section of the cervical tissue containing both the epithelium and stroma was exposed by shaving off layers of the embedding medium and tissue using a cryostat.
- Other faunal elements include colonial and solitary corals, encrusting bryozoans, stromatoporoids, and rare brachiopods.
- It comes out in spots like those which often appear spontaneously on the green young branches of peach trees that have the gum disease; and in these spots it is usual to find Coryneum stromata or mycelium filaments. Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884.
- For the romantic and postromantic traditions of poetics in which Benjamin and Adorno participate, modern lyric ambition stands as a, or even the, high-risk enterprise, the "go-for-broke-game" [ "va-banque-Spiel"], of literary art: The lyric poem must work coherently in and with the mediumlanguagethat human beings use to articulate objective concepts, even while the lyric explores the most subjective, nonconceptual, and ephemeral phenomena. Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics
- Percentages can be misleading, however-only three times since 1926 have more than 10 publications dealt with stromatoporoid paleoecology.
- The Hotel Volga, in Kostroma, is another Soviet-style cement behemoth — but it occupies the finest real estate in the city, and has splendid views of the river. The Travel Advisory
- The results indicate that the stroma contains some rather fragile enzymes.