maturation
英 [mætjʊ'reɪʃ(ə)n]
美[,mætʃu'reʃən]
- n. 成熟；化脓；生殖细胞之形成
英英释意
- 1. coming to full development; becoming mature
- 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;
- "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
- 3. (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus