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suture

1. Surgery

a. catgut, silk thread, or wire used to stitch together two bodily surfaces

b. the surgical seam formed after joining two surfaces

2. Anatomy a type of immovable joint, esp between the bones of the skull (cranial suture)

3. Zoology a line of junction in a mollusc shell, esp the line between adjacent chambers of a nautiloid shell

4. Botany a line marking the point of dehiscence in a seed pod or capsule

suture [′sü·chər]

(biology)

A distinguishable line of union between two closely united parts.

(medicine)

A fine thread used to close a wound or surgical incision.

Suture

the surgical uniting, chiefly by a surgical needle and suture material, of tissues cut during surgery or separated by an injury. Threads made of silk, linen, or Dacron and other polymeric materials are used in superficial sutures. In buried sutures, which are applied to internal organs and tissues, absorbable materials, such as catgut or biologically inert polymeric threads, are used; buried sutures are not removed.

One type of superficial suture, cosmetic suture, which is applied to the face, is made using threads of horsehair or thin ca-pron. Osteorrhaphy (osteosynthesis) is a type of buried suture. Primary, primo-secondary, and secondary sutures are distinguished on the basis of when the sutures are applied, which depends on the type of wound. The sutureless union of tissues is achieved with various adhesives made from polymeric materials (for example, cyanoacrylate) or with metal clamps.

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No references found	To render the matter even surer yet, however, this bullet was discovered to have a flaw or seam at right angles to the usual suture, and upon examination, this seam corresponded precisely with an accidental ridge or elevation in a pair of moulds acknowledged by the accused himself to be his own property. Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context The sutures in the skulls of young mammals have been advanced as a beautiful adaptation for aiding parturition, and no doubt they facilitate, or may be indispensable for this act; but as sutures occur in the skulls of young birds and reptiles, which have only to escape from a broken egg, we may infer that this structure has arisen from the laws of growth, and has been taken advantage of in the parturition of the higher animals. The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context What I had taken for masonry seemed now to be iron, or some other metal, in huge plates, whose sutures or joints occasioned the depression. The Pit and the Pendulum by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context	Sutlej Sutlej River Sutlers Sutomo Sutpen, Thomas Sutra Sutro weir Sutta Pitaka suttee Sutter Buttes State Park Sutter County Sutter National Wildlife Refuge Sutter's Fort State Historic Park Sutter's Mill Sutter, John Sutter, John Augustus Suttner, Bertha (Gräfin Kinsky), Freifrau von Suttner, Bertha Baroness Von Sutton Sutton Coldfield Sutton County Sutton Hoo Sutton, Walter S Sutton, Walter S. Sutton-in-Ashfield Suture sutured Suturing Apparatus Suuk-Su Suure-Jaani Suva Suvar Suvarnaprabhasa Suvorin, Aleksei Suvorin, Aleksei Sergeevich Suvorov Suvorov School Suvorov, Aleksandr Suvorov, Aleksandr Vasilevich Suvorov, Aleksandr Vasilyevich Suvorov, Aleksandr, Count Suvorov, Evgenii Suvorov, Evgenii Konstantinovich Suvorov, Nikolai Suvorov, Nikolai Georgievich Suvorovo Suwalki Suwalki Lake Region Suwannee Suwannee County Suwannee River	sutura serrata sutura serrata sutura squamosa sutura squamosa sutura vera sutura vera suturae suturae suturae cranii sutural sutural sutural sutural b's sutural b's sutural b's sutural bone sutural bone sutural bone Sutural bones Sutural bones Sutural bones sutural ligament sutural ligament sutural ligament sutural ligament suturally suturally suturally Suturated suturation Suture suture forceps suture forceps suture forceps suture knot suture knot suture knot suture length to wound length ratio Suture material Suture material Suture material suture memory suture memory suture memory suture memory suture needle suture needle suture needle suture needle suture pattern suture pattern (3) suture pattern (3) suture pattern (3) suture pin (4) suture pin (4) suture pin (4) Suture techniques Suture techniques Suture techniques Suture zone Suture zone

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To render the matter even surer yet, however, this bullet was discovered to have a flaw or seam at right angles to the usual suture, and upon examination, this seam corresponded precisely with an accidental ridge or elevation in a pair of moulds acknowledged by the accused himself to be his own property.

Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context

The sutures in the skulls of young mammals have been advanced as a beautiful adaptation for aiding parturition, and no doubt they facilitate, or may be indispensable for this act; but as sutures occur in the skulls of young birds and reptiles, which have only to escape from a broken egg, we may infer that this structure has arisen from the laws of growth, and has been taken advantage of in the parturition of the higher animals.

The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context

What I had taken for masonry seemed now to be iron, or some other metal, in huge plates, whose sutures or joints occasioned the depression.

The Pit and the Pendulum by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context

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