Suture

Quick meaning: Suture is a noun meaning A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound.

Meaning

A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound.

More Meanings

1. Thread used to sew or stitch two edges (especially of skin) together.
2. (geology) An area where separate terrane join together along a major fault.
3. (anatomy) A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.
4. (botany) The seam at the union of two margins in a plant.
5. (transitive, also figurative) To sew up or join by means of a suture.
6. (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.
7. (philosophy, figurative) The procedure by which a subject comes to be identified with its own representation, as in the identification of the speaker with the sign “I” within a certain discourse; (by extension) any process by which the content of something is determined or supplied from outside itself.

Example Sentences

It is also generally marked above by flexuose anastomosing black, indented lines, whence it appears as if insculpt with rivulose sutures.

Although the sutures are difficult to trace, the supraoccipital contacts the parietal anteriorly at a tight interdigitated suture, and contacts the ophistotic posterolaterally at a straight suture.

The suture of science and philosophy constitutes an identification of philosophical thought and scientific objectivity that is unfortunately typical of contemporary so-called ‘analytic’ philosophy. […] Yet, the over-identification of philosophical tasks with science itself signifies a veritable retreat from philosophy itself.

Word Forms

• sutures
• suturing
• sutured

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include skin, coronal, diastasis, stitching, sew, stitch.

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