Synonyms: festering, suppuration, maturation
Definition: (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
Similar words: bodily function, bodily process, body process, activity
Definition: an organic process that takes place in the body
Usage: respiratory activity
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: organic process, biological process
Definition: a process occurring in living organisms
Synonyms: maturation, maturement, ripening
Definition: coming to full development; becoming mature
Similar words: organic process, biological process
Definition: a process occurring in living organisms