
Maturation
WordNet
noun
(1) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
(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) Coming to full development; becoming mature