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pursestring suture

pursestring suture is the alternative form of purse-string suture.

Meaning of purse-string suture

Noun

purse-string suture (plural purse-string sutures)

  1. A surgical and medical technique where a continuous running stitch is placed in and out along the edge of a circular wound; when the suture ends are pulled tight, the opening gathers and closes, much like a traditional drawstring purse.

Forms of pursestring suture

pluralpursestring sutures

Questions about pursestring suture

What is pursestring suture the alternative form of?
Pursestring suture is the alternative form of purse-string suture.

Words near pursestring suture in the dictionary

  1. pursers
  2. pursership
  3. purserships
  4. purses
  5. pursestring
  6. pursestring suture
  7. pursestrings
  8. pursevant
  9. pursevants
  10. pursew
  11. purseweb spider

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pursestring suture (page history and authors); purse-string suture (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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