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intussusception vs maturation

maturation vs intussusception

intussusception and maturation both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
intussusception Yes No No No
maturation Yes No No No
As nouns, maturation is a hypernym of intussusception; that is, maturation is a word with a broader meaning than intussusception:
  • intussusception: (biology) growth in the surface area of a cell by the deposit of new particles between existing particles in the cell wall
  • maturation: (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
Other hypernyms of intussusception include development, growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny.
intussusception (noun) maturation (noun)
(biology) growth in the surface area of a cell by the deposit of new particles between existing particles in the cell wall (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
the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface 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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