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Maturation   /mˌætʃərˈeɪʃən/  /mˌætʃʊrˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Maturation

noun
1.
Coming to full development; becoming mature.  Synonyms: maturement, ripening.
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.  Synonyms: development, growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny.
3.
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus.  Synonyms: festering, suppuration.



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"Maturation" Quotes from Famous Books



... Fluctuation of Matter was to be felt, and afterwards treated them as common Abscesses. Riverius[19] very justly observes, that when such Tumours encrease in such a Manner as to endanger Suffocation, they ought to be opened before they come to Maturation; and Dr. Pringle[20] desires us not to wait for a Fluctuation of Matter, but to open the Abscess as soon as it can be ...
— An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany • Donald Monro

... instance that has come under my inspection, one only excepted, and in this case a very few appeared on the arms: they were very minute, of a vivid red colour, and soon died away without advancing to maturation; so that I cannot determine whether they had any connection ...
— An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae • Edward Jenner

... newborns looked curiously at their bodies, examined with sharp interest their hands and feet. They stared at each other, and saw their formlessness mirrored in each other's eyes. They were not yet men; but they were not children either. Certain abstractions remained, and the ghosts of memories. Maturation came quickly, born of old habit patterns and personality traits, retained in the broken threads of their ...
— The Status Civilization • Robert Sheckley

... to all animals, and extends to the seed of plants in the act of germination, to flower-buds when developing, and fruits during their maturation. ...
— Familiar Letters of Chemistry • Justus Liebig

... a very large nucleolus (plate I, fig. 1), which in the iron-haematoxylin preparations is very conspicuous, but does not stain like chromatin with thionin or other anilin stains, nor does it behave like an accessory chromosome during the maturation mitoses. Before each spermatogonial division it divides as in figures 2 and 3, and the same is true for each maturation mitosis. Figure 4 shows the 52 chromosomes of a spermatogonial division in metaphase. Figures 5 and 6 are young ...
— Studies in Spermatogenesis (Part 1 of 2) • Nettie Maria Stevens

... experience, and try to translate its pure data simply. What are the characteristics of vital evolution? First of all it is a dynamic continuity, a continuity of qualitative progress; next, it is essentially a duration, an irreversible rhythm, a work of inner maturation. By the memory inherent in it, the whole of its past lives on and accumulates, the whole of its past remains for ever present to it; which is tantamount to saying ...
— A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson • Edouard le Roy

... development of empire. The name "Republic" still remains; the traditions of the Republic are cherished by millions; the republican forms are almost intact, but the relations of the United States to its conquered territory and its subject peoples; the rapid maturation of the plutocracy as a governing class or caste; the shamelessness of the exploitation in which the rulers have indulged; and the character of the forces that are now shaping public policy, proclaim to all the world ...
— The American Empire • Scott Nearing

... again health whether the malady had been the trembling withering or loose boyconnell flux. Certainly in every public work which in it anything of gravity contains preparation should be with importance commensurate and therefore a plan was by them adopted (whether by having preconsidered or as the maturation of experience it is difficult in being said which the discrepant opinions of subsequent inquirers are not up to the present congrued to render manifest) whereby maternity was so far from all accident possibility removed that ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce



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