maturation vs auxesis

auxesis vs maturation

maturation and auxesis both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
maturation	Yes	No	No	No
auxesis	Yes	No	No	No

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

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
auxesis: growth from increase in cell size without cell division

Other hyponyms of maturation include culture, amelogenesis, angiogenesis, apposition, anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, cohesion, cultivation, cytogenesis, cytogeny, foliation, leafing, fructification, gametogenesis, germination, sprouting, habit, infructescence, intussusception, juvenescence, life cycle, masculinisation, masculinization, virilisation, virilization, morphogenesis, myelinisation, myelinization, neurogenesis, palingenesis, recapitulation, proliferation, psychogenesis, psychogenesis, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, rooting, suppression, dentition, odontiasis, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation.

maturation (noun)	auxesis (noun)
(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	growth from increase in cell size without cell division
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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