granulation

[ gran-yuh-ley-shuhn ]

noun

1. the act or process of granulating.
2. a granulated condition.
3. any of the grains of a granulated surface.
4. Pathology.
   1. the formation of granulation tissue, especially in healing.
   2. granulation tissue.
5. Astronomy. one of the small, short-lived features of the sun's surface that in the aggregate give it a mottled appearance when viewed with a telescope.

Word History and Origins

Origin of granulation¹

First recorded in 1606–15; granule + -ation

Example Sentences

I asked her to report to me in two or three days, and, on reporting, I found a healthy granulation presenting.

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Any granulation tissue is curetted away and the cavity dried.

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Thus the arescence so prejudicial to the saccharine granulation would be certainly prevented.

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Here it is boiled till it is reduced to syrup, and then it is boiled again, until it is ready for granulation.

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Granulation tissue, for instance, may have temporarily closed the mouth of the fistula.

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