1. (

• maturation ,
• ripening ,
• maturement

) coming to full development; becoming mature ;

2. (

• growth ,
• growing ,
• maturation ,
• development ,
• ontogeny ,
• ontogenesis

) (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" ;

3. (

• festering ,
• suppuration ,
• maturation ,

) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus ;