| maturation | | |
| n. (process) | 1. maturation, maturement, ripening | coming to full development; becoming mature. |
| ~ biological process, organic process | a process occurring in living organisms. |
| n. (process) | 2. development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny | (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" |
| ~ culture | (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar).; "the culture of cells in a Petri dish" |
| ~ biological science, biology | the science that studies living organisms. |
| ~ amelogenesis | the developmental process of forming tooth enamel. |
| ~ angiogenesis | the formation of new blood vessels. |
| ~ apposition | (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material. |
| ~ auxesis | growth from increase in cell size without cell division. |
| ~ anthesis, blossoming, florescence, flowering, inflorescence, efflorescence | the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms. |
| ~ caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis | introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution). |
| ~ cohesion | (botany) the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals). |
| ~ cultivation | the process of fostering the growth of something.; "the cultivation of bees for honey" |
| ~ cytogenesis, cytogeny | the origin and development and variation of cells. |
| ~ foliation, leafing | (botany) the process of forming leaves. |
| ~ fructification | the bearing of fruit. |
| ~ gametogenesis | the development and maturation of sex cells through meiosis. |
| ~ gastrulation | the process in which a gastrula develops from a blastula by the inward migration of cells. |
| ~ germination, sprouting | the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow. |
| ~ habit | the general form or mode of growth (especially of a plant or crystal).; "a shrub of spreading habit" |
| ~ infructescence | the fruiting stage of the inflorescence. |
| ~ intussusception | (biology) growth in the surface area of a cell by the deposit of new particles between existing particles in the cell wall. |
| ~ juvenescence | the process of growing into a youth. |
| ~ life cycle | the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced. |
| ~ masculinisation, masculinization, virilisation, virilization | the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction). |
| ~ morphogenesis | differentiation and growth of the structure of an organism (or a part of an organism). |
| ~ myelinisation, myelinization | the development of a myelin sheath around a nerve fiber. |
| ~ neurogenesis | the development of nerve tissues. |
| ~ biological process, organic process | a process occurring in living organisms. |
| ~ palingenesis, recapitulation | emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species. |
| ~ proliferation | growth by the rapid multiplication of parts. |
| ~ psychogenesis | a general term for the origin and development of almost any aspect of the mind. |
| ~ psychogenesis | the development in the life of an individual of some disorder that is caused by psychological rather than physiological factors. |
| ~ psychomotor development | progressive acquisition of skills involving both mental and motor activities. |
| ~ psychosexual development | (psychoanalysis) the process during which personality and sexual behavior mature through a series of stages: first oral stage and then anal stage and then phallic stage and then latency stage and finally genital stage. |
| ~ rooting | the process of putting forth roots and beginning to grow. |
| ~ suppression | the failure to develop some part or organ. |
| ~ dentition, odontiasis, teething | the eruption through the gums of baby teeth. |
| ~ teratogenesis | the development of defects in an embryo. |
| ~ vegetation | the process of growth in plants. |
| ~ isometry | the growth rates in different parts of a growing organism are the same. |
| n. (process) | 3. festering, maturation, suppuration | (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus. |
| ~ medical specialty, medicine | the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques. |
| ~ bodily function, bodily process, body process, activity | an organic process that takes place in the body.; "respiratory activity" |
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