Was it the adventure she'd had on the island, or just normal maturation?

The "normal" maturation is evident as elevation of the lesion from a flat macule to a raised papule.

Because peer relations are so essential to developing identity and intimacy, the normal psychosocial maturation of unpopular adolescents lags behind their peers.

"We probably lose, on average, four or five kids a year that just get too big for us through normal maturation."

However, the possibility remained that, despite apparently normal maturation, proliferation of chondrocytes could be affected by the Hoxc-8 overexpression.

One injection every three months interferes with the normal maturation of the eggs in the ovaries, but also causes bone loss.

But Dr. Castellanos said the finding also raised the possibility that medication might enhance the normal maturation of the brain in children with attention disorders.

Cells show normal maturation and differentiation.

The death of these cells is essential to the normal maturation of the moth.

Bone marrow aspiration or biopsy reveals hypercellularity with relatively normal granulocytic maturation and no significant increase in leukemic blasts.