Crossword clues for suture
suture
- Surgeon's work
- Put in stitches?
- Sew up, as a wound
- Stitch up
- Surgeon's closing line?
- An immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull)
- Thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together
- A seam used in surgery
- Type of stitch
- Surgeon's sewing thread
- Medical stitching
- Surgical stitching
- Surgical stitch
- Surgery stitch
- Thread for sewing up wound
- Surgeon's stitch
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suture \Su"ture\, n. [L. sutura, fr. suere, sutum, to sew or stitch: cf. F. suture. See Sew to unite with thread.]
The act of sewing; also, the line along which two things or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a seam, or that which resembles a seam.
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(Surg.)
The uniting of the parts of a wound by stitching.
The stitch by which the parts are united.
(Anat.) The line of union, or seam, in an immovable articulation, like those between the bones of the skull; also, such an articulation itself; synarthrosis. See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic.
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(Bot.)
The line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins in any part of a plant; as, the ventral suture of a legume.
A line resembling a seam; as, the dorsal suture of a legume, which really corresponds to a midrib.
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(Zo["o]l.)
The line at which the elytra of a beetle meet and are sometimes confluent.
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A seam, or impressed line, as between the segments of a crustacean, or between the whorls of a univalve shell.
Glover's suture, Harmonic suture, etc. See under Glover, Harmonic, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "surgical stitching of a wound, etc.," from Latin sutura "a seam, a sewing together," from sutus, past participle of suere "to sew" (see sew). Meaning "a seam, a line of joining or closure" is from 1570s.
1777, from suture (n.). Related: Sutured; suturing.
Wiktionary
n. 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 (context geology English) An area where separate terranes join together along a major fault. 4 (context anatomy English) A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull. 5 (context anatomy English) 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. vb. (context transitive English) to sew up or join by means of a suture
WordNet
n. an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull) [syn: sutura, fibrous joint]
a seam used in surgery [syn: surgical seam]
thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together
v. join with a suture; "suture the wound after surgery"
Wikipedia
A suture is a type of fibrous joint which only occurs in the skull (or "cranium"). The bones are bound together by Sharpey's fibres. A tiny amount of movement is permitted at sutures, which contributes to the compliance and elasticity of the skull. These joints are synarthroses. It is normal for many of the bones of the skull to remain unfused at birth. The fusion of the skull's bones at birth is known as craniosynostosis. The term " fontanelle" is used to describe the resulting "soft spots". The relative positions of the bones continue to change during the life of the adult (though less rapidly), which can provide useful information in forensics and archaeology. In old age, cranial sutures may ossify (turn to bone) completely. The joints between the teeth and the joint between the mandible and the cranium, the temporomandibular joint, form the only non-sutured joints in the skull.
In structural geology, a suture is a joining together along a major fault zone, of separate terranes, tectonic units that have different plate tectonic, metamorphic and paleogeographic histories. The suture is often represented on the surface by an orogen or mountain range. The term was borrowed from surgery where it describes the sewing together of two pieces of tissue, but the sutures of the skull, where separate plates of bone have fused, may be a better metaphor.
Suture is a 1993 neo-noir film directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel and stars Dennis Haysbert and Mel Harris. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.
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.
Sutures are found in the skeletons or exoskeletons of a wide range of animals, in both invertebrates and vertebrates. Sutures are found in animals with hard parts from the Cambrian period to the present day. Sutures were and are formed by several different methods, and they exist between hard parts that are made from several different materials.
Suture, literally meaning "seam", may refer to:
- Surgical suture, a stitch used by doctors and surgeons to hold tissue together
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Suture (anatomy), a rigid joint between hard parts of animals
- Suture (joint), concerning the major joints in the bones of the cranium
- Ammonitic suture, the intersection of the septum with the outer shell in Ammonites
- Facial suture (trilobite), divisions in the cephalon (head) of most trilobites, along which the exoskeleton splits during molting
- Suture (geology), a major fault through an orogen or mountain range
- Suture (film), a 1993 film directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel
- Suture (album), a 2000 album by American Industrial rock band Chemlab
Suture is an compilation by industrial rock band Chemlab, released in 2000. It is an expanded reissue of Magnetic Fields Remixes (itself containing the complete contents of Ten Ton Pressure), with remixes from the Electric Molecular and Exile On Mainline singles, and one previously unreleased suture.
Usage examples of "suture".
Once I clamped off the bleeders, I had to work through the tiny forest of arterial branches, suturing the torn lymph tissue itself.
There were sore spots, but as yet no softness to indicate that the cranial sutures that had closed his babyhood fontanels, firming his skull into a rigid box of limited volume, were relaxing and opening up.
The scars could be made out, but there was nothing of that yielding either side of the sagittal suture and a little above the lambdoid that had worried Dr Maturin.
Donne describes an athletic laborer of twenty-five who received a wound from a rifle-ball penetrating the cranial parietes immediately in the posterior superior angle of the parietal bone, and a few lines from the lambdoid suture.
The ball entered one inch above and in front of the right ear and made its exit through the lambdoidal suture posteriorly.
In a cloth on a bench opposite were rolled up a portion of the malar bone, some fragments of the os frontis, one entire right parietal bone, detached from its fellow along the sagittel suture, and from the occipital along the lambdoidal suture, perhaps taking with it some of the occipital bone together with some of the squamous portion of the temporal bone.
His eyes were held open with lid retractors, and the eyes themselves were fixated with limbal sutures.
In order to ascertain how far it might be possible for a bar of the size causing the injury to traverse the skull in the track assigned to it, Bigelow procured a common skull in which the zygomatic arches were barely visible from above, and having entered a drill near the left angle of the inferior maxilla, he passed it obliquely upward to the median line of the cranium just in front of the junction of the sagittal and coronal sutures.
Cockburn pointed out to me was the difference in the maxillary and nasal sutures of the face.
It would be seen that the nasal bones of the tiger run up higher than those of the lion, the apices of whose nasal and maxillary sutures are on a level.
The calypter is small and inconspicuous and the mesonotal suture incomplete, which is common in eye gnats, pomace or vinegar flies, but the wings are silent in flight.
I was now rather good at knot tying and suturing, by virtue of having forced my way into several operations, including three hernias, a couple of hemorrhoids, an appendectomy, and a vein stripping.
He bought needle forceps, a nylon suture kit, surgical needles, scalpels, drips, antihistamines, hydrocortisone, penicillin tablets, some powdered antibiotics and three tins of vitamin B.
X rays, scans, shunts, sutures, intravenous feedings, parenteral nutritional supplements, respiratory therapy, and, finally, the autopsy.
The wound in the pericardium, which was two inches long, was sutured and the external wound was closed.