(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 act of positioning close together (or side by side) |
coming to full development; becoming mature | (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material |
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows |