suture

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: su=ture

CIDE DICTIONARY

suture, 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.  [1913 Webster]
•  The uniting of the parts of a wound by stitching.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  The line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins in any part of a plant; as, the ventral suture of a legume.  [1913 Webster]
•  The line at which the elytra of a beetle meet and are sometimes confluent.  [1913 Webster]

Glover's suture, Harmonic suture, etc. See under Glover, Harmonic, etc.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

suture, n. & v.
--n.
1 Surgery a the joining of the edges of a wound or incision by stitching. b the thread or wire used for this.
2 the seamlike junction of two bones, esp. in the skull.
3 Bot. & Zool. a similar junction of parts.
--v.tr. Surgery stitch up (a wound or incision) with a suture.

Derivative

sutural adj. sutured adj.

Etymology

F suture or L sutura f. suere sut- sew

THESAURUS

suture

animal fiber, ankle, articulation, artificial fiber, boundary, butt, capillament, cervix, cilium, cirrus, clinch, closure, cobweb, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, coupling, denier, dovetail, elbow, embrace, fancywork, fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule, flagellum, garment making, gliding joint, gossamer, hair, hank, hinge, hinged joint, hip, interface, join, joining, joint, juncture, knee, knuckle, link, miter, mortise, neck, needlework, pivot, pivot joint, rabbet, scarf, seam, sewing, shoulder, skein, stitch, stitchery, stitching, strand, symphysis, tendril, thread, threadlet, tie rod, toggle, toggle joint, union, web, weld, wrist

ROGET THESAURUS

suture

Junction

N junction, joining, joinder, union connection, conjunction, conjugation, annexion, annexation, annexment, astriction, attachment, compagination, vincture, ligation, alligation, accouplement, marriage infibulation, inosculation, symphysis, anastomosis, confluence, communication, concatenation, meeting, reunion, assemblage, coition, copulation, sex, sexual congress, sexual conjunction, sexual intercourse, love-making, joint, joining, juncture, pivot, hinge, articulation, commissure, seam, gore, gusset, suture, stitch, link, miter mortise, closeness, tightness coherence, combination, annexationist, joined, joint, conjoint, conjunct, corporate, compact, hand in hand, firm, fast, close, tight, taut, taught, secure, set, intervolved, inseparable, indissoluble, insecable, severable, jointly, in conjunction with, fast, firmly intimately, tria juncta in uno.