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missuture

missuture verb: to suture improperly.

Verb

missuture (third-person singular simple present missutures, present participle missuturing, simple past and past participle missutured)

  1. To suture improperly.
    • It is easy to missuture curved gaping wounds so that one side is sheared and buckled relative to the other.1960, Benjamin Keith Rank, Alan Ross Wakefield, Surgery of Repair as Applied to Hand Injuries, page 83
    • An inexpensive intraluminal shunt maintains coronary perfusion, prevents ischemia, reduces back bleeding, and maintains a bloodless field and molds the suture line to prevent accidental missuturing of the posterior coronary wall.2008, Mustafa Tok, Halil I. Ucar, Omer F. Dogan, Bora Farsak, Ali C. Yorgancioglu, “Protective role of intracoronary shunt in off-pump coronary bypass operations”, in Saudi Medical Journal, volume...

Noun

missuture (plural missutures)

  1. An instance of missuturing
    • A rare but serious complication is residual IVC- left atrial shunt due to missuture of atrial septal flap to the Eustachian valve which was mistaken as lower edge of the defect [7–9].2015, Fushin Lin, Hong Tang, Xijun Xiao, “Surgical repair of inferior sinus venosus defects: a novel approach with unsnared inferior vena cava”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)...
    • What is more, like the missutures caused by the installational video dispositif, this second form of hindrance can again be understood as a videomatic intervention in a cinematic quality.2017, Janna Houwen, Film and Video Intermediality, page 285

Forms of missuture

Verb
third-person singular presentmissutures
present participlemissuturing
past participlemissutured
pastmissutured
Noun
pluralmissutures

Origin of missuture

From mis- + suture.

Questions about missuture

What does missuture mean?
Missuture means to suture improperly.
What part of speech is missuture?
Missuture can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of missuture?
The past tense of missuture is missutured.

Words near missuture in the dictionary

  1. missuses
  2. missuspect
  3. missuspected
  4. missuspecting
  5. missuspects
  6. missuture
  7. missutured
  8. missutures
  9. missuturing
  10. misswallow
  11. misswallowed

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