[syn: suture, surgical seam]
3. thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together;
VERB (1)
1. join with a suture;
- Example: "suture the wound after surgery"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Suture \Su"ture\, n. [L. sutura, fr. suere, sutum, to sew or
stitch: cf. F. suture. See Sew to unite with thread.]
1. 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.
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2. (Surg.)
(a) The uniting of the parts of a wound by stitching.
(b) The stitch by which the parts are united.
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3. (Anat.) The line of union, or seam, in an immovable
articulation, like those between the bones of the skull;
also, such an articulation itself; synarthrosis. See
Harmonic suture, under Harmonic.
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4. (Bot.)
(a) The line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins
in any part of a plant; as, the ventral suture of a
legume.
(b) A line resembling a seam; as, the dorsal suture of a
legume, which really corresponds to a midrib.
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5. (Zool.)
(a) The line at which the elytra of a beetle meet and are
sometimes confluent.
(b) A seam, or impressed line, as between the segments of
a crustacean, or between the whorls of a univalve
shell.
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Glover's suture, Harmonic suture, etc. See under
Glover, Harmonic, etc.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
suture
n 1: an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the
skull) [syn: suture, sutura, fibrous joint]
2: a seam used in surgery [syn: suture, surgical seam]
3: thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch
tissues together
v 1: join with a suture; "suture the wound after surgery"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "suture":
animal fiber, ankle, articulation, artificial fiber, boundary,
butt, capillament, cervix, cilium, cirrus, clinch, closure, cobweb,
connecting link, connecting rod, connection, coupling, denier,
dovetail, elbow, embrace, fancywork, fiber, fibrilla, filament,
filamentule, flagellum, garment making, gliding joint, gossamer,
hair, hank, hinge, hinged joint, hip, interface, join, joining,
joint, juncture, knee, knuckle, link, miter, mortise, neck,
needlework, pivot, pivot joint, rabbet, scarf, seam, sewing,
shoulder, skein, stitch, stitchery, stitching, strand, symphysis,
tendril, thread, threadlet, tie rod, toggle, toggle joint, union,
web, weld, wrist