suture
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(verb) join with a suture, as of a wound in surgery |
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Related Words: seam |
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| 2. |
(noun) thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together |
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Related Words: thread, yarn |
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| 3. |
(noun) a seam used in surgery |
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Synonyms: surgical seam |
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Related Words: seam |
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(noun) an immovable fibrous joint (especially between the bones of the skull) |
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Synonyms: sutura |
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Related Words: articulatio, articulation, coronal suture, frontal suture, intermaxillary suture, internasal suture, interparietal suture, joint, lamboid suture, sagittal suture, sutura coronalis, sutura frontalis, sutura intermaxillaris, sutura internasalis, sutura lamboidea, sutura sagittalis |
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