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Definition of Suture

1. Verb. Join with a suture. "Suture the wound after surgery"

2. Noun. An immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull).

3. Noun. A seam used in surgery.

4. Noun. Thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together.

Definition of Suture

1. n. The act of sewing; also, the line along which two things or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a seam, or that which resembles a seam.

Definition of Suture

1. Noun. Seam formed by sewing two edges (especially of skin) together. ¹

2. Noun. Thread used to sew two edges (especially of skin) together; stitch. ¹

3. Noun. (geology) An area where separate terranes join together along a major fault. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) to sew up or join by means of a suture ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Suture

1. to unite by sewing [v -TURED, -TURING, -TURES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suture

suttled suttles suttling suttly sutura sutura coronalis sutura frontalis sutura intermaxillaris sutura internasalis sutura lamboidea

sutura sagittalis sutural sutural bone suturally suturated suture (current term) sutured sutureless suturelike sutures

suturing suwarrow suwarrows sux suxamethonium suya suzani suzanis suzerain suzerains

Literary usage of Suture

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1848)
"In a serrated suture—sutu'ra seu syntax'is scrra'ta—the indentations and processes ... The suture is generally performed with waxed thread and straight or ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Henry Vandyke Carter, Luther Holden (1878)
"This suture sometimes presents, near its posterior extremity, the parietal foramen on each side ; and in front, where it joins the coronal suture, ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"Ascites and oedema; suture, drainage. Sepsis and death in a few days." 54. ... Cirrhosis, ascites; suture. Died in a lew days from peritonitis.12 77. ..."

4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"In or near the last suture is the mastoid foramen, for the transmission of ... The point where the upper temporal line cuts the coronal suture is named the ..."

5. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1888)
"ON THE IMPORTANCE OF PRIMARY suture OF DIVIDED NERVES ... Now-a-days a surgeon who should fail to suture a divided tendon would be considered derelict in ..."

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