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The act or process of forming or crystallizing into grains; as, the granulation of powder and sugar.

Filling up; promoting granulation of wounds or ulcers. -- n.

Preventing or checking the process of healing, or granulation.

A spongy, morbid growth or granulation in animal bodies, as the proud flesh of wounds. Hoblyn.

een. Granulated steel, a variety of steel made by a particular process beginning with the granulation of pig iron.

Full of granulations.

The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

r gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation.

Restoration of a part by granulation, adhesive inflammation, or autoplasty.

A very vascular superficial opacity of the cornea, usually caused by granulation of the eyelids. Foster.

the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portion…

down the sirup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; -- with the preposition off. [Local, U.S.]