Surgery. Designating proud flesh (proud flesh, n.).

Resembling grains of gravel or sand; granular.

= granular, adj., in various senses.

Characterized by great vigour, force, or vitality, such as indicates or suggests pride. Designating a healing wound with excessive granulation…

Medicine. Of abnormal tissue or a growth: resembling a mushroom in shape, texture, or speed of growth; = fungoid, adj. 2. Cf. fungus, n. 2. In…

Of plants, etc.: Growing profusely, exuberant, rank. †Of flesh: Growing to excess (obsolete).

Of unhealthy flesh: Granulating exuberantly, ‘proud’. Obsolete.

Medicine. Of a growth, esp. a neoplasm: resembling a mushroom in shape, texture, or speed of growth. Also: characterized by the presence of such…

Having a granulated surface or structure. Pathology. Of diseased structures, diseases: = granulated, adj. 3.

Pathology. Characterized by the presence of granulations or small grain-like bodies; = granular, adj.

Characterized by granulation.