Stroma

Stroma may refer to:

Biology

 * Stroma (tissue), the connective, functionally supportive framework of a biological cell, tissue, or organ (in contrast, the parenchyma is the functional aspect of a tissue)
 * 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
 * Lymph node stromal cell, cells which provide a scaffold for other lymph node cells
 * Stroma of bone marrow
 * Stroma (fungus), a tissue structure of some ascomycete mushrooms
 * Stroma (fluid), the fluid between grana, where carbohydrate-forming reactions occur in the chloroplasts of photosynthetic plant cells
 * Stromal cell, a connective tissue cell of any organ; supports the function of the parenchyma
 * The nonmalignant cells which are present in the tumor microenvironment; see

People

 * Freddie Stroma (born 1987), British actor known for playing Cormac McLaggen in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
 * Stroma Buttrose (born 1929), Australian architect

Other

 * Stroma (musical group), a New Zealand chamber music ensemble
 * Island of Stroma, a now uninhabited island off the northern coast of Scotland