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Suture   /sˈutʃər/   Listen
noun
Suture  n.  
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.
2.
(Surg.)
(a)
The uniting of the parts of a wound by stitching.
(b)
The stitch by which the parts are united.
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.
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.
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.
Glover's suture, Harmonic suture, etc. See under Glover, Harmonic, etc.





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"Suture" Quotes from Famous Books



... afternoon's work, and the biologist was going through some perplexities the Scotchman had created by a metaphysical treatment of the skulls of Hyrax and a young African elephant. He was clearing up these difficulties by tracing a partially obliterated suture the Scotchman had overlooked when the door from the passage opened, and Manning ...
— Ann Veronica • H. G. Wells
... of it to be turned up—namely, that forming the tip of the flap—should be scraped away quite close to the os pedis. Unless this is done, there will not be a sufficient thickness left to afterwards bring into position and suture. ...
— Diseases of the Horse's Foot • Harry Caulton Reeks
... external operation have been devised, among which are: (1) Freeing the sac through an external cervical incision and suturing its fundus upward against the pharynx, which has proved successful in some cases. (2) Inversion of the sac into the pharynx and suture of the mouth of the pouch. In a case so treated the pouch was blown out again during a fit of sneezing eight months after operation. (3) Plication of the walls of the sac by catgut sutures, as in the Matas obliterative ...
— Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy - A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery • Chevalier Jackson
... pectoralis major from its insertion, and stitching it to the serratus anterior so as to make it take on the function of this muscle, or stitching it to the axillary border of the scapula. Success has also followed suture of the vertebral border of the scapula ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles
... injuries differed in no way from that adopted in civil practice, given satisfactory surroundings. Suture might be indicated in some cases of transverse fracture, but this would only be necessary if the fragments were widely separated. The punctured fractures needed treatment as for simple wounds, combined with a short period ...
— Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 • George Henry Makins


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