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GRANULOMA (granulomata)

Dictionary entry overview: What does granuloma mean?

• GRANULOMA (noun)
The noun GRANULOMA has 1 sense:

1. a tumor composed of granulation tissue resulting from injury or inflammation or infection

Familiarity information: GRANULOMA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GRANULOMA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A tumor composed of granulation tissue resulting from injury or inflammation or infection

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("granuloma" is a kind of...):

neoplasm; tumor; tumour (an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "granuloma"):

gumma (a small rubbery granuloma that is characteristic of an advanced stage of syphilis)

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