suture
Syllables: su·ture/ˈs(j)uː.tʃə/US/ˈsu.t͡ʃɚ/
suture noun: a seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound.
Noun
suture (plural sutures)
- A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound.
- Although the sutures are difficult to trace, the supraoccipital contacts the parietal anteriorly at a tight interdigitated suture, and contacts the ophistotic posterolaterally at a straight suture.2016 February 6, “Cranial Anatomy and Palaeoneurology of the Archosaur Riojasuchus tenuisceps from the Los Colorados Formation, La Rioja, Argentina”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
- Thread used to sew or stitch two edges (especially of skin) together.
- An area where separate terrane join together along a major fault.
- A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.
- A seam or line, such as that between the segments of a crustacean, between the whorls of a univalve shell, or where the elytra of a beetle meet.
- The seam at the union of two margins in a plant.
- It is also generally marked above by flexuose anastomosing black, indented lines, whence it appears as if insculpt with rivulose sutures.1894, James M. Crombie, A Monograph of Lichens Found in Britain, page 329
- The procedure by which a subject comes to be identified with its own representation, as in the identification of the speaker with the sign “I” within a certain discourse; (by extension) any process by which the content of something is determined or supplied from outside itself.
- The suture of science and philosophy constitutes an identification of philosophical thought and scientific objectivity that is unfortunately typical of contemporary so-called ‘analytic’ philosophy. […] Yet, the over-identification of philosophical tasks with science itself signifies a veritable...2011, Tzuchien Tho, “Introduction: One Divides into Two? Dividing the Conditions”, in Alain Badiou, The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic, →ISBN, page xix
Verb
suture (third-person singular simple present sutures, present participle suturing, simple past and past participle sutured)
suture meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Kannada and Indonesian
suture in Tamil
- அறுவைத் தையல், இழை, தையல், இணைவு, தைப்பு, தையல் மூட்டு பின்னல் மூட்டு
suture in Urdu
- جوڑ, سلائی, ٹانکا
suture in Kannada
- ಹೊಲಿ
suture in Indonesian
- seam
- jahitan
- type of fibrous joint which only occurs in the skull
- sutura
Examples of suture in a sentence
- Reattaching his severed finger required microsurgery to suture together the tiny blood vessels.
- The ophthalmic division supplies sensation from the eyebrows to the coronal suture.
- Conditions such as those are known collectively as single suture synostosis.
Forms of suture
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sutures |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | sutures |
| present participle | suturing |
| past participle | sutured |
| past | sutured |
Origin of suture
From Middle English suture, from Latin sūtūra (“suture”), from suere (“sew, join or tack together”) + -tūra (forms action nouns).
Words formed from suture
- hydrosutured
- missuture
- resuture
- suturable
- unsutured
- coaptation suture
- coronal suture
- frontal suture
- glover's suture
- hydrosuture
- lambdoid suture
- metopic suture
- microsuture
- multisuture
- osteosuture
- purse-string suture
- pursestring suture
- sagittal suture
- squamosal suture
- squamous suture
- sutural
- suturectomy
- sutureless
- suturelike
- suture tree
- venisuture
- suturation
Words that rhyme with suture
Questions about suture
- What does suture mean?
- Suture means a seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound.
- What is suture in Tamil?
- Suture in Tamil is அறுவைத் தையல், இழை, தையல். See Suture meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is suture?
- Suture can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce suture?
- Suture is pronounced /ˈs(j)uː.tʃə/.
- What is the plural of suture?
- The plural of suture is sutures.
Words near suture in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: suture (page history and authors); suture (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); suture (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); suture (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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