The fundamental substance or stroma is colorless and homogeneous.
Deep to these is the ovarian stroma, composed of fibrous tissue, and embedded in it are numerous nests of epithelial cells, the Graafian follicles, in various stages of development.
Originally the calcareous substance of the plates (stereom) was pierced by irregular canals, more or less vertical, and containing strands of the soft tissue (stroma) that deposited the stereom, as well as spaces filled with fluid.
This was interpreted as evidence of local disorder in the array of collagen fibrils that comprise the corneal stroma.
The most important histological element is the connective tissue stroma.