Definitions for sutures

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sutures su·ture

Spelling: [soo-cher]

IPA: /ˈsu tʃər/

Sutures is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in sutures (ersstuu).

Definitions for sutures

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. Zoology, Botany. 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)

1. to unite by or as by a suture.

Origin of sutures

1535-45; Latin sūtūra seam, suture, equivalent to sūt(us) (past participle of suere to sew¹) + -ūra -ure

Examples for sutures

Occasionally the body-whorl is obtusely carinated just below the suture.

When there are neither ora nor suture to separate it from the antepectus.

This I secured at once with suture and the accident had no bad consequences.

If we trace our finger along the suture in the other direction, viz.

Elongated, with a spiral groove near the suture of the whorls.

The suture is simple, and there are faint revolving grooves.

suture, the arrows denoting the direction in which it is passed.sp.

He states that it is cut from the suture, where a whorl joins the preceding one.

He says that this suture insures the redintegration of the nerve much better.

A few points of suture in the skin may be added if necessary.