資料來源 : pyDict
化膿,成熟
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Maturation \Mat`u*ra"tion\, n. [L. maturatio a hastening: cf. F.
maturation.]
The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence,
specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the
formation of pus or matter.
資料來源 : WordNet®
maturation
n 1: coming to full development; becoming mature [syn: {ripening},
{maturement}]
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" [syn: {growth}, {growing},
{development}, {ontogeny}, {ontogenesis}] [ant: {nondevelopment}]
3: (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or
a vesicle and the discharge of pus [syn: {festering}, {suppuration}]