granulation tissue

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsgranulation

   Broaderconnective tissue

   Narrowerproud flesh

Questions about granulation tissue

What does granulation tissue mean?

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

What is another word for granulation tissue?

Close synonyms include granulation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is granulation tissue a common word?

granulation tissue is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.