The stroma of the ovary is a peculiar soft tissue, abundantly supplied with blood vessels, consisting for the most part of spindle-shaped cells with a small amount of ordinary connective tissue. These cells have been regarded by some anatomists as unstriped muscle cells, which, indeed, they most resemble; by others as connective-tissue cells. On the surface of the organ this tissue is much condensed, and forms a layer composed of short connective-tissue fibers, with fusiform cells between them. The stroma of the ovary may contain interstitial cells resembling those of the testis. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroma_of_ovary ]
Synonyms: stroma of the ovary ovarian stroma ovary stroma stroma ovarica interstitial tissue of ovary
Term information
- CALOHA:TS-1246
- FMA:18626
- EMAPA:28880
- Wikipedia:Stroma_of_ovary
- UMLS:C0737271 (ncithesaurus:Stroma_of_the_Ovarian_Cortex)
- SCTID:259306002
- NCIT:C33638
- MA:0002991
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Term relations
- stroma
- reproductive structure
- cellular anatomical structure
- part of some ovary
- has part some hilus cell of ovary