maturation

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noun

1. coming to full development;
becoming mature (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
ripening, maturement
• Derivationally related forms:
mature (for: maturement), ripen (for: ripening), maturational, mature, maturate
• Hypernyms:
organic process, biological process
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 (Freq. 1)
- he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children
• Syn:
growth, growing, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
• Ant:
nondevelopment (for: development)
• Derivationally related forms:
ontogenetic (for: ontogenesis), ontogenetic (for: ontogeny), developmental (for: development), develop (for: development), maturational, mature, maturate, grow (for: growing), grow (for: growth)
• Topics:
biology, biological science
• Members of this Topic:
isometry
• Hypernyms:
organic process, biological process
• Hyponyms:
culture, amelogenesis, angiogenesis, apposition, auxesis,
blossoming, flowering, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence,
cenogenesis, kenogenesis, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, kainogenesis, cohesion,
cultivation, cytogenesis, cytogeny, foliation, leafing, fructification,
gametogenesis, germination, sprouting, habit, infructescence, intussusception,
juvenescence, life cycle, masculinization, masculinisation, virilization, virilisation,
morphogenesis, myelinization, myelinisation, neurogenesis, palingenesis, recapitulation,
proliferation, psychogenesis, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, rooting, suppression,
teething, dentition, odontiasis, teratogenesis, vegetation
• Part Meronyms:
gastrulation
3. (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
• Syn:
festering, suppuration
• Derivationally related forms:
mature, maturate, suppurate (for: suppuration), fester (for: festering)
• Topics:
medicine, medical specialty
• Hypernyms:
bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  festering, suppuration, growth, growing, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis, ripening, maturement