granular

adj.

1. Composed or appearing to be composed of granules or grains.
2. Having a grainy texture.
3. Biology. Containing granules: granular cells.

granularity gran'u·lar'i·ty (-lăr'ĭ-tē) n.
granularly gran'u·lar·ly adv.

adjective

Consisting of or covered with large particles: coarse, grainy, gritty, rough. See smooth/rough.

Made up of or marked by the presence of granules or grains.

• g. casts — homogeneous urinary casts with a granular structure; composed of fractions of serum proteins.
• g. cell myoblastoma — rare tumor at the base of the tongue of the dog.
• g. cell tumor — a benign, circumscribed, tumor-like lesion of soft tissue, particularly of the lung of the horse, tongue of dogs, skin and muscle, composed of large cells with prominent granular cytoplasm; considered by some to arise from myoblasts (myoblastoma) and by others from neurogenic elements (granular cell schwannoma).
• g. layer — see stratum granulosum.
• g. reticulum — rough-surfaced endoplasmic reticulum.
• g. vaginitis — spherical, 1 mm diameter nodules on the vulvar mucosa of the cow and the penile skin of the bull. Appears to be a nonspecific hyperplasia of lymphoid tissue, but linked anecdotally with Mycoplasma spp. Called also granular vulvovaginitis.
• g. venereal disease — see granular vaginitis (above).
• g. vulvitis — part of a venereal disease caused by Ureaplasma diversum in cattle; other signs include embryonic death, abortion, dead or weak calves.
• g. vulvovaginitis — see granular vaginitis (above).

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - kornet, grynet

Nederlands (Dutch)
korrelig

Français (French)
adj. - granuleux, granulé (fertilisant)

Deutsch (German)
adj. - körnig, gekörnt

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - κοκκώδης, σπυρωτός

Italiano (Italian)
granuloso

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - granuloso

Русский (Russian)
гранулированный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - granular, granulado

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - grynig

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
由小粒而成的, 粒状的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 由小粒而成的, 粒狀的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 낟알의, 과립의

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 粒の, ざらざらした, 粒状の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) محبب, خشن, يحتوي على حبيبات‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮גרעיני, מחוספס‬

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