STROMA

(Lat.), n. n. Strom'a3. Gen., stro'matos (-at is). Gr., orpufia (from <rrp<avvvvai, to spread). Fr.,*. Ger., S., Grundgewebe. 1. The ti ue or combination of ti ues forming the principal ma of an organ and serving as a kind of matrix or support for its special anatomical elements. According to Littre, the term should be applied to a covering and not to the supporting framework of an organ. 2. The connective-ti ue framework of serous membranes exclusive of the endothelium. 3. The cell-body of nucleated red blood-corpuscles, or, in mammalian red blood-corpuscles, the entire ma of the corpuscle exclusive of the coloring matter. [J, 30, 32, 35.] 4. A body, variously shaped, composed of compactly arranged hyphal ti ue, bearing the perithecium in pyrenomycetous Funyi. [a, 35.] S. Hisii. See HILUM of the ovary. [s. 550]