bodily process vs maturation

maturation vs bodily process

bodily process and maturation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bodily process	Yes	No	No	No
maturation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, maturation is a hyponym of bodily process; that is, maturation is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than bodily process:

bodily process: an organic process that takes place in the body
maturation: (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus

Other hyponyms of bodily process include control, breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilation, respiration, breath, consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake, sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice, insemination, sleeping, reaction, response, crying, tears, weeping, ablactation, anastalsis, discharge, emission, expelling, expectoration, festering, suppuration, healing, hypostasis, lachrymation, lacrimation, tearing, watering, lactation, opsonisation, opsonization, overactivity, peristalsis, vermiculation, diaphoresis, hidrosis, perspiration, sudation, sweating, phagocytosis, pinocytosis, placentation, psilosis, tanning, transpiration.

bodily process (noun)	maturation (noun)
an organic process that takes place in the body	(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
	coming to full development; becoming mature
	(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus

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