maturation
(noun)
noun
1. coming to full development; becoming mature
Similar word(s): ripening
Definition categories: 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
Similar word(s): development, growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny
Definition categories: process
3. (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
Similar word(s): festering, suppuration