ALL meanings of suture
su·ture
S s - noun suture 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. 1
- noun suture Anatomy. the line of junction of two bones, especially of the skull, in an immovable articulation. the articulation itself. 1
- noun suture 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. 1
- noun suture a seam as formed in sewing; a line of junction between two parts. 1
- noun suture a sewing together or a joining as by sewing. 1
- verb with object suture to unite by or as by a suture. 1
- noun suture medical: stitch 1
- countable noun suture A suture is a stitch made to join together the open parts of a wound, especially one made after a patient has been operated on. 0
- noun suture catgut, silk thread, or wire used to stitch together two bodily surfaces 0
- noun suture the surgical seam formed after joining two surfaces 0
- noun suture a type of immovable joint, esp between the bones of the skull (cranial suture) 0
- noun suture a seam or joining, as in sewing 0
- noun suture a line of junction in a mollusc shell, esp the line between adjacent chambers of a nautiloid shell 0
- noun suture a line marking the point of dehiscence in a seed pod or capsule 0
- verb suture to join (the edges of a wound, etc) by means of sutures 0
- noun suture the act of joining together by or as by sewing 0
- noun suture the line along which such a joining is made 0
- noun suture the joining together, or the irregular line of junction, of certain vertebrate bones, esp. of the skull 0
- noun suture a seam formed when two parts unite 0
- noun suture a line of dehiscence along which a fruit, as a pod or capsule, splits 0
- noun suture the act or method of joining together the two edges of a wound or incision by stitching or similar means 0
- noun suture any material, as gut, thread, wire, etc., so used 0
- noun suture a single loop or knot of such material made in suturing 0
- verb transitive suture to join together with or as with sutures 0