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suture

16 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. 1) suture (noun)
  2. 2) suture (transitive verb)
  3. suture needle (noun)
  4. coronal suture (noun)
  5. frontoparietal suture (noun)
  6. interrupted suture (noun)
  7. mattress suture (noun)
  8. nasofrontal suture (noun)
  9. nasomaxillary suture (noun)
  10. palatine suture (noun)
  11. purse-string suture (noun)
  12. sagittal suture (noun)
  13. sphenofrontal suture (noun)
  14. sphenoparietal suture (noun)
  15. sphenosquamosal suture (noun)
  16. sphenozygomatic suture (noun)

1su·ture

noun \ˈsü-chər\

Definition of SUTURE

1
a : a stitch made with a suture b : a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body c : the act or process of sewing with sutures
2
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

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