suture

From Middle English suture, from Latin sūtūra (“suture”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsuː.tjə(ɹ)/, /ˈsuː.tʃə(ɹ)/

(1,2) Photo of 8 sutures

(4) Cranial Sutures

suture (plural sutures)

1. A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound.
2. Thread used to sew or stitch two edges (especially of skin) together.
3. (geology) An area where separate terrane join together along a major fault.
4. (anatomy) A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.
5. (anatomy) 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.
6. (botany) The seam at the union of two margins in a plant.

suture (third-person singular simple present sutures, present participle suturing, simple past and past participle sutured)

1. (transitive) To sew up or join by means of a suture.

• uterus

Borrowed from Latin sūtūra (“suture”).

suture f (plural sutures)

1. (surgery) suture; stitch

suture

1. first-person singular present indicative of suturer
2. third-person singular present indicative of suturer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of suturer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of suturer
5. second-person singular imperative of suturer

• “suture” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• tueurs, utérus

suture f

1. plural of sutura

Borrowed from Latin sūtūra.

• IPA^(key): /siu̯ˈtiu̯r(ə)/, /ˈsiu̯tiu̯r(ə)/

suture (plural suturez)

1. A suture; a seam made in surgical operations:
2. (rare, anatomy) A slight bodily indentation.

• English: suture

• “sūtūre (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-17.

suture

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of suturar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of suturar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of suturar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of suturar.