suture

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suture[1,noun] suture[2,transitive verb] coronal suture

Main Entry: ¹su·ture
Pronunciation: 'sü-ch&r
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, from Latin sutura seam, suture, from sutus, past participle of suere to sew -- more at SEW
1 a : a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body; also : a stitch made with a suture b : the act or process of sewing with sutures
2 a : a uniting of parts b : the seam or seamlike line along which two things or parts are sewed or united
3 a : the line of union in an immovable articulation (as between the bones of the skull); also : such an articulation b : a furrow at the junction of adjacent bodily parts; especially : a line of dehiscence (as on a fruit)
- su·tur·al /'sü-ch&-r&l, 'süch-r&l/ adjective
- su·tur·al·ly /-r&-lE/ adverb