SUTURE

Suture

In anatomy, a suture is a fairly rigid joint between two or more hard elements of an organism, with or without significant overlap of the elements.

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suture

Noun

  1. A seam formed by sewing two edges (especially of skin) together.
  2. Thread used to sew two edges (especially of skin) together; stitch.
  3. An area where separate terranes join together along a major fault.
  4. A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.
  5. 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.

Verb

  1. to sew up or join by means of a suture


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