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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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"suture the wound after surgery"verbjoin with a suturetype of:
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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
- marginal placentation with ovules borne on the wall along the ventral suture of a simple ovary
- internasal suture the suture between the two nasal bones
- sutura intermaxillaris the suture between the two maxillae of the upper jawbone
- sutura sagittalis the suture uniting the two parietal bones
- purse-string operation a surgical procedure in which a suture is used to close the cervix in a pregnant woman; is performed when the cervix has failed to retain previous pregnancies
- coronal suture the suture between the parietal and frontal bones of the skull