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Definition: Stroma |
StromaNoun1. The dense colorless framework of a chloroplast. 2. The supporting tissue of an organ (as opposed to parenchyma). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Stroma \Stro"ma\, noun; plural Stromata. [Latin expression, bed covering, Greek couch or bed.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | The middle, thickest layer of tissue in the cornea. (references) |
Medicine | The connective tissue basis for framework of an organ. Source: European Union. (references) |
Science | A mass or matrix of vegetative hyphae (usually black) with or without tissue of the host or substrate, sometimes Sclerotium-like in form, in or on which spores are produced, often covering a group of several ascocarps. pl. stromata. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Stroma |
| English words defined with "stroma": Oecoid ♦ Red blood corpuscles ♦ Stromata. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "stroma": Adenolymphoma, Androblastoma ♦ Brenner Tumor ♦ Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating, Corneal Neovascularization ♦ Demours membrane, Descemet's Membrane, dystrophia urica, dystrophia urica corneae ♦ Fuchs lamella ♦ Ganglioneuroblastoma ♦ keratitis urica ♦ lamina elastica posterior ♦ Merry Men of Mey ♦ oculaire ♦ Phyllodes Tumor, posterior basal membrane, PRK, pseudostroma. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Stroma" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Turkish (stroma). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It consists of two layers - the stroma and the pigmented epithelium. (references) | |
Over time, the lattice lines will grow opaque and involve more of the stroma. (references) | ||
The endothelium's primary task is to pump this excess fluid out of the stroma. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Stroma" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 76.19% of the time. "Stroma" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 76.19% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (proper) | 23.81% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "stroma": Corneal Stroma. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stroma | 16 |
stroma tumor | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stroma"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | строма. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stroma. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stroma (erythrocyte stroma), compact mycelium weefsel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | alustapahka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | stroma tumoral, stroma, tissu" de mycélium compact. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Stroma, festes Hyphengeflecht, festes Hyphen "gewebe". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συμπαγής ιστός μυκηλίου, στρώμα (coat, layer, litter, mattress, sheet, stratum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | stroma, "tessuto" di micelio compatto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | omastray tecido de micélio compacto, "stroma". (various references) stroma, "tejido" de micelio compacto. (various references) stroma. (various references) stroma, bağ dokusundan oluşan kısım. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stroma": stromal, stromata, stromatolite, stromatolites, stromatolitic. (additional references) | |
Words containing "stroma": postromantic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stroma" (pronounced strō"mu) |
| 3 | -ō" m u | aroma, carcinoma, coma, diploma, douma, glaucoma, lymphoma, melanoma, mesothelioma, papilloma, retinoblastoma, soma. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-m-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: amort, atoms, marts, moats, moras, morts, ratos, roams, roast, rotas, smart, stoma, storm, taros, toras, trams. | |
-2 letters: arms, arts, atom, mars, mart, mast, mats, moas, moat, mora, mors, mort, most, mots, oars, oast, oats, orts, osar, rams, rato, rats, roam, roms, rota, rots, soar, soma, sora, sort, star, stoa, tams, taos, taro. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-m-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: amorist, formats, maestro, marmots, matrons, mortals, mortars, ostmark, stardom, stromal, transom, tsardom. | |
+2 letters: acrotism, amorists, amortise, angstrom, atomiser, atropism, bromates, comparts, costmary, doormats, foremast, formants, formates, madworts, maestros, marmoset, marplots, matadors, monstera, moralist, mordants, onstream, ostmarks, outsmart, pastromi, postmark, ramosity, rearmost, romaunts, stardoms, stramony, stromata, tamaraos, tambours, taprooms, tearooms, teraohms, tonearms, transoms, tritomas, tsardoms, tzardoms. | |
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