GRANULATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does granulation mean? 

• GRANULATION (noun)
  The noun GRANULATION has 2 senses:

1. new connective tissue and tiny blood vessels that form on the surfaces of a wound during the healing process

2. the act of forming something into granules or grains

  Familiarity information: GRANULATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRANULATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

New connective tissue and tiny blood vessels that form on the surfaces of a wound during the healing process

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

granulation; granulation tissue

Hypernyms ("granulation" is a kind of...):

connective tissue (tissue of mesodermal origin consisting of e.g. collagen fibroblasts and fatty cells; supports organs and fills spaces between them and forms tendons and ligaments)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "granulation"):

proud flesh (the swollen tissue around a healing wound or ulcer)

Derivation:

granulate (form granulating tissue)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of forming something into granules or grains

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the granulation of medicines

Hypernyms ("granulation" is a kind of...):

formation; shaping (the act of fabricating something in a particular shape)

Derivation:

granulate (form into grains)

 Context examples 

Because the lateral margin of the nail acts as a foreign body, inflammation and granulation may result.

(Ingrown Toenail, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

There are patchy polypoid masses of intra-alveolar granulation tissue in small airway lumina and alveolar ducts.

(Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia, NCI Thesaurus)

Inflammation of the bronchioles with obstruction by fibrous granulation tissue or bronchial exudate.

(Bronchiolitis obliterans, NCI Thesaurus)

Observation chambers, implanted in various animal species and in man, used for intravital microscopy of the microcirculation in granulation tissue, preformed tissue, or of the microvascularization of tissue implants.

(Dorsal Skinfold Window Chamber Model, NCI Thesaurus)

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have for the first time directly observed granulation patterns on the surface of a star outside the Solar System — the ageing red giant π1 Gruis.

(Giant Bubbles on Red Giant Star’s Surface, ESO)

Superficial vascularization of the cornea with infiltration of granulation tissue; an inflammatory exudate overlying the lining layer of synovial cells on the inside of a joint.

(Pannus Formation, NCI Thesaurus)