noun
- Coming to full development; becoming mature.
- synonyms: ripening, maturement
- 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. (
- usage: "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
- synonyms: growth, growing, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
- Medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus. (.
- synonyms: festering, suppuration
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