Dictionary Check: maturation
"maturation" is a valid word!
Scrabble
12
points
Words with Friends
15
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Definition
noun
coming to full development; becoming mature
noun
(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
Example:
"he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
noun
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
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