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nouna seam used in surgery
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nounan immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull)
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nounthread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together
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- lambda the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and lamboid sutures of the skull
- suture join with a suture
- carrel French surgeon and biologist who developed a way to suture and graft blood vessels (1873-1944)
- sagittal located in a plane that is parallel to the central plane of the sagittal suture
- sutural bone any of the tiny soft bones found in the sutures between cranial bones
- rhinion the anterior tip at the end of the suture of the nasal bones
- frontal suture the suture between two halves of the frontal bone (usually obliterated by the age of 6)
- sutura coronalis the suture between the parietal and frontal bones of the skull
- sutura internasalis the suture between the two nasal bones
- occipitomastoid suture the suture between the occipital and the temporal bones; a continuation of the lamboid suture