Maturation - Definition
maturation
n 1: coming to full development; becoming mature [syn:
maturation, ripening, maturement]
2: (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" [syn: growth, growing,
maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis] [ant:
nondevelopment]
3: (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or
a vesicle and the discharge of pus [syn: festering,
suppuration, maturation]