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(noun) festering, suppuration
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
(noun) growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny, development
(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
(noun) maturement, ripening
coming to full development; becoming mature