[
UK
/sˈuːtʃɐ/
]
[ US /ˈsutʃɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈsutʃɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a seam used in surgery
- an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull)
- thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together
VERB
-
join with a suture
suture the wound after surgery
How To Use suture In A Sentence
- The two types of sutures are: absorbable and nonabsorbable.
- Poly-L-lactic acid is the same material used in absorbable sutures and offers an excellent safety profile. Archive 2004-11-01
- This is a small holopid with rounded whorls, deep sutures and a body whorl bearing coarse collabral threads.
- The sutures are, in effect, grooves between the bones of the skull and the fontanelles are small areas where the sutures meet.
- The numerous rivers heart surface, threads a needle the line to suture sadly.
- That suture is an unexpected and original way of safeguarding the novel's integrity.
- The Indus Suture Zone, also locally called the Sumdo Formation, contains the well-preserved Nidar ophiolite and the Zildat Ophiolitic Melange.
- On and above the glabella a trace of the frontal suture sometimes persists; beneath it is the frontonasal suture, the mid-point of which is termed the nasion. II. Osteology. 5c. The Exterior of the Skull
- Each stitch of the continuous suture is made larger on the vein than on the artery, and the size of the vein is thus progressively reduced and a good union ensured. Alexis Carrel - Nobel Lecture
- Frontal suture: Diptera; separates the frontal lunule from that part of the head above it: in Coleopteran; = clypeal suture. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology