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What is a stroma?

What is a stroma? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) the tissue structure of an organ, etc., that serves to support it
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The stroma itself was myxomatous with numerous calciferous bodies and occasional ganglion cells in clusters.
Once inside the stroma, the transit sequence is cleaved off by the stromal processing peptidase.
The progenitors of osteoclasts are from the hematopoietic cell line and the osteoblasts originate from the marrow stroma.
The cell islands were further demarcated from the surrounding stroma by reticulin condensation around groups of cells.
The stroma consists of fatty tissue and ligaments surrounding the ducts and lobules, blood vessels and lymphatic vessels.
The hemorrhoidectomy specimens showed a stroma of connective tissue containing many blood vessels, and interwoven bundles of smooth muscle.

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