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Answer for the clue "New connective tissue and tiny blood vessels that form on the surfaces of a wound during the healing process ", 11 letters:
granulation

Word definitions for granulation in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Late Latin granulum (see granular ) + -ation .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Granulation \Gran`u*la"tion\, n. [Cf. F. granulation.] The act or process of forming or crystallizing into grains; as, the granulation of powder and sugar. The state of being granulated. (Med.) One of the small, red, grainlike prominences which form on ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Granulation is the act or process of forming or crystallizing into grains. Granules typically have a size range between 0.2 and 4.0 mm depending on their subsequent use.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The formation of granules 2 (context uncountable English) The condition of being granulated 3 Granulated tissue on the surface of a healing wound; granulation tissue 4 (context astronomy English) A bright, transient granular marking on the Sun's photosphere ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. new connective tissue and tiny blood vessels that form on the surfaces of a wound during the healing process [syn: granulation tissue ] the act of forming something into granules or grains; "the granulation of medicines"

Usage examples of granulation.

The doctor incised the edges of the granulating surface and then led the granulations on by what is known in the medical profession as the 'sponge graft.

On her view-screens Helene could see the pulsing granulation cells of the photosphere, and the Big Spot, now bigger than ever.

Its surface was jewel smooth, hyaline --yet beneath it was a suggestion of granulation, of close-packed, innumerable, microscopic crystals.

That hissing sound of whirlwind granulation always set his teeth on edge.

He could see that in some of the wounds where the maggots had been at work there was already fresh granulation tissue.

He opened a cupboard in George's office and pulled out three objects, each about a foot in length, with a sharp metal spike at one end, the rest being tubular with granulations on the tip.

The Dark skimmed below him, a storm with granulations in it, and sudden red and golden and purple glows where the sun shifted just right.

He focuses on these diminutive bits of reality, these granulations that he has never paid any real attention to in his former life and that others in the rush of time would never notice either, and they are enough.