Main entry: festering, suppuration, maturation
Definition: (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
Main entry: growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturation, development
Definition: (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
Main entry: maturation, maturement, ripening
Definition: coming to full development; becoming mature