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The unglamorous scaffolding that lets the actual stars of the cell show up for work.
means The structural connective tissue or supporting framework of an organ or cell, as opposed to the functional tissue that does the organ's actual job.
from From Greek 'stroma,' meaning a bed, mattress, or something spread out to lie on — from the verb 'stornynai,' to spread. The sense traveled from literal bedding to biological bedding: the tissue an organ's working cells are, in effect, laid out upon.
- literal meaning
- Greek for bedding or mattress
- plant version
- fluid in chloroplasts where sugar actually gets made
- tumor twist
- cancers hijack stroma to build their own blood supply
- connective role
- structural tissue holding organs together, not doing their job