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suture

UK/ˈs(j)uː.tʃə/US/ˈsu.t͡ʃɚ/
nounC1Common in everyday speech and writing · #5,396 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: sutures

A suture is a stitch used by a surgeon to close a wound. Put in sutures, remove the sutures, dissolvable sutures.

The dissolvable kind disappear on their own and the others must be taken out, usually within a fortnight. In anatomy a suture is also the immovable joint between the plates of the skull, named from the look of stitching.

Mohammed Jasim Alfeehan, Yasir Naif Qassim, Ahmed Khalaf Jasim, and Waleed Khalid Albayati · CC BY 4.0

Definitions of suture

  1. 1nounsutureA stitch used by a surgeon to close a wound.C1

    “The nurse removed the sutures from his knee a week after the operation.”

suture is a stitch.

Where it comes from

Latin sutura comes from suere, to sew, the same root that gives sew, seam and couture.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *syewH-

  2. Latin

    sūtūra — suture

  3. Middle English

    suture

  4. English, today

    suture

From Middle English suture, from Latin sūtūra (“suture”), from suere + -tūra.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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suture in the wild

  • The frontal suture is a fibrous joint that divides the two halves of the frontal bone of the skull in infants and children.

    Frontal suture

  • The suture is often represented on the surface by an orogen or mountain range.

    Suture (geology)

  • In the skull, the joints between the bones are called sutures.

    Fibrous joint

  • The follicles of some species dehisce by the ventral suture (as in Banksia), or by the dorsal suture (as in Magnolia).

    Follicle (fruit)

  • There are numerous types of suture which differ by needle shape and size as well as thread material and characteristics.

    Surgical suture

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.