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US
/ˌmætʃɝˈeɪʃən, ˌmætʃʊˈɹeɪʃən/
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[ UK /mətʃɔːɹˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /mətʃɔːɹˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- 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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(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
he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children
How To Use maturation In A Sentence
- Subsequent events, such as fruit maturation and fruit dispersal, were noted and recorded once a week.
- Sinking roots is not an automatic childhood event, but is a result, at least in part, of the process of maturation.
- Current areas of investigation include neurohumoral, cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating airway contractility, airway smooth muscle growth and cell surface receptor expression; regulation of postnatal development and growth of the lung; developmental effects of pulmonary inflammation and oxidative lung injury on airway and pulmonary vascular reactivity; biochemical and molecular regulation of membrane ion channels in cystic fibrosis; maturational changes in chest wall and airway function; pulmonary manifestations of sickle cell disease; the physiological basis of ventilator dependence in children with chronic respiratory insufficiency; and developmental aspects of respiratory mechanics and ventilatory control. Fellowship Program in Pulmonary Medicine
- The difference will be exacerbated because birds, the most well-represented endotherms in the analysis, demonstrate constrained phenological plasticity due to photoperiodic induction of gonad maturation and migration, especially for long-distance migrants. The Guardian World News
- Today, marriage is viewed as the natural outcome of emotional and sexual maturation, and a prolonged single status is stigmatizing for women.
- Curious about the stage of fruit maturation preferred by other wild primates, I sent out a brief survey.
- The entire process of maturation, from birth to death, is a creative process of choices, each of which can radically change the outcome of a person's life.
- One of the major changes that occurs during the maturation of oocytes is the accumulation of yolk protein, or vitellin.
- Marampon F, Zani BM, Prudente S, Perlas E, et al. (2007) ROCK2 and its alternatively spliced isoform ROCK2m positively control the maturation of the myogenic program. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- Following an initial chimeric state (bi - or multi-partner chimeras), maturation of the allorecognition system of corals could potentially lead to the death of the entire entity or of just some of the genotypes within the genetically heterogeneous individual. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
