maturation
Nouns
- (n) coming to full development; becoming mature maturement, ripening,
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(n) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
- he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children
- (n) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus festering, suppuration,