Thick and lumpy, as clotting blood. [L. grumus, a little heap]
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adj.
coarse; lumpy; clotted; often used to describe the appearance of the centre of wounds or diseased cells or the surface of a bacterial culture.
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gru·mous (grooґməs) [L. grumus heap] clotted or lumpy.Medical dictionary. 2011.