Suture (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. Surgery.
    • a joining of the lips or edges of a wound or the like by stitching or some similar process.
    • a particular method of doing this.
    • one of the stitches or fastenings employed.
  2. Anatomy.
    • the line of junction of two bones, especially of the skull, in an immovable articulation.
    • the articulation itself.
  3. the junction or line of junction of contiguous parts, as the line of closure between the valves of a bivalve shell, a seam where carpels of a pericarp join, etc.
  4. a seam as formed in sewing; a line of junction between two parts.
  5. a sewing together or a joining as by sewing.
verb (used with object), su·tured, su·tur·ing.
  1. to unite by or as by a suture.
noun
  1. surgery
    • catgut, silk thread, or wire used to stitch together two bodily surfaces
    • the surgical seam formed after joining two surfaces
  2. a type of immovable joint, esp between the bones of the skull (cranial suture)
  3. a seam or joining, as in sewing
  4. a line of junction in a mollusc shell, esp the line between adjacent chambers of a nautiloid shell
  5. a line marking the point of dehiscence in a seed pod or capsule
verb
  1. to join (the edges of a wound, etc) by means of sutures
Suture (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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