About 3 weeks after being admitted to the hospital, a patient's wounds begin to fill in with a red and semitransparent material. The nurse identifies this as
1. Granulation tissue.
2. Phagocytosis.
3. Hemostasis.
4. Keloids.
ANS: 1
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