GRANULATION TISSUE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does granulation tissue mean? 

• GRANULATION TISSUE (noun)
  The noun GRANULATION TISSUE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: GRANULATION TISSUE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRANULATION TISSUE (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 tissue" 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 tissue"):

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

 Context examples 

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)

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)