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Definition of Sutura
1. Noun. An immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull).
Specialized synonyms: Coronal Suture, Sutura Coronalis, Frontal Suture, Sutura Frontalis, Intermaxillary Suture, Sutura Intermaxillaris, Internasal Suture, Sutura Internasalis, Lamboid Suture, Sutura Lamboidea, Occipitomastoid Suture, Parietomastoid Suture, Interparietal Suture, Sagittal Suture, Sutura Sagittalis
Generic synonyms: Articulatio, Articulation, Joint
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sutura
Literary usage of Sutura
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Genera Plantarum Ad Exemplaria Imprimis in Herbariis Kewensibus Servata Definita by Joseph Dalton Hooker, George Bentham (1865)
"Legumen oblongum v. lato-lineare, plano-compressum, tenue, tardius 2-valve, sutura
superiore angusto alata. Semina transversa, obovata, compressa, ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"sutura (a seam) is that form of articulation where the contiguous margins of flat
bones are united by a thin layer of fibrous tissue. ..."
3. Biologisches Zentralblatt by Isidor Rosenthal, Georg Thieme (1885)
"... zuweilen abgetrennten und dann in der sutura sagittalis gelegenen Spitze der
... dass eine sutura transversa am ..."
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