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Suture   /sˈutʃər/   Listen
Suture

noun
1.
An immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull).  Synonyms: fibrous joint, sutura.
2.
A seam used in surgery.  Synonym: surgical seam.
3.
Thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together.



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"Suture" Quotes from Famous Books



... the elastic tourniquet will stop the blood flow as effectively as the Heidenhain backstitch suture method, I think, Miss Merriman, and it will be much simpler. I'm glad I brought it. Have you the saline solution, and the ...
— 'Smiles' - A Rose of the Cumberlands • Eliot H. Robinson

... unpeeled, but they are better if peeled before drying. The first step in the preparation of peaches is to split them open to remove the pit. To do this, cut completely round the peach in the line of the suture with a sharp knife. The cut must be complete, for tearing of the flesh will make the finished product less attractive. If the fruit is to be peeled the paring should be done before it is cut ...
— Every Step in Canning • Grace Viall Gray

... of paradise lose the magnificent feathers around their tails that naturalists call 'below-the-wing' feathers. These feathers are gathered by the fowl forgers and skillfully fitted onto some poor previously mutilated parakeet. Then they paint over the suture, varnish the bird, and ship the fruits of their unique labors to museums and ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne

... small, hairy body of 5 lobules which are the rudiments of the ovaries. The style protrudes and twists downwards. Stigma thick, compressed, of 5 lobules. Fruit, five woody pods, semicircular, joined to a common center, each enclosing many oval seeds inserted in the superior suture. ...
— The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines • T. H. Pardo de Tavera

... curve is obtained by fixing the graduated tape at zero on the root of the nose (on the fronto-nasal suture) and passing it over the middle of the forehead, vertex, and occiput to the external ...
— Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero

... remarkable feature of the head is a high ridge, or crest of hair, in the course of the sagittal suture, which meets posteriorily with a transverse ridge of the same, but less prominent, running round from the back of one ear to the other. The animal has the power of moving the scalp freely forward and back, and when enraged is said to contract it strongly over the brow, thus ...
— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley

... play by these sorceries. Which fear she communicated to me. I bade her rely upon me: I had, by chance, about me a certain flat plate of gold, whereon were graven some celestial figures, supposed good against sunstroke or pains in the head, being applied to the suture: where, that it might the better remain firm, it was sewed to a ribbon to be tied under the chin; a foppery cousin-german to this of which I am speaking. Jaques Pelletier, who lived in my house, had presented this to me for a singular ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne

... unnatural to be discovered in the part; there was merely a round worm, which was situated in the upper part of the intus-susceptio. The intestine was brought together by means of six spiral stitches, after the manner of the glover's suture, and the end of the silk was allowed to hang out of the external wound ...
— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various



Words linked to "Suture" :   joint, catgut, gut, articulatio, sutura internasalis, yarn, seam, sutura lamboidea, suturing, sutura coronalis, thread, sutura sagittalis, articulation, sutura frontalis, sutura intermaxillaris



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