maturation

Noun

• (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus

• (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
    

• coming to full development; becoming mature

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  festering , suppuration , growth , growing , development , ontogeny , ontogenesis , ripening , maturement