(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 general term for the origin and development of almost any aspect of the mind |
coming to full development; becoming mature | the development in the life of an individual of some disorder that is caused by psychological rather than physiological factors |
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | |