(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 | a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage |
coming to full development; becoming mature | the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced |
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | |