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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



... with seeing what happens, but must also learn how it comes to happen! What we want to see are just the wires, the machinery. We want to investigate the box with the false bottom, touch the magic ring in order to find the suture, and look into the cards to discover ...
— Plays by August Strindberg, Second series • August Strindberg
... howsoe'er remote The fiery dawn of that millennial future, That some fine day the rent in Ireland's coat Will be adjusted with a saving suture, And one fair rule suffice For lamb and lion, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 15, 1914 • Various
... medicine for 1912 has just been awarded to Dr. Alexis Carrel, a Frenchman, of Lyon, now employed at the Rockefeller Institute of New York, for his entire work relating to the suture of vessels and the transplantation ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 21 - The Recent Days (1910-1914) • Charles F. Horne, Editor


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