Suture
noun
A stitch or row of stitches holding together the edges of a wound or surgical incision.
The doctor used a suture to close the wound.
Often appears as...
- absorbable suture
- non-absorbable suture
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To sew up a wound or part of the body using sutures.
They had to suture the deep cut on his leg.
Often appears as...
- suture the wound
- suture the incision
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A seam-like joint between two parts, especially in the skull.
The lambdoid suture is at the back of the skull.
Often appears as...
- coronal suture
- sagittal suture
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Academic
noun
A type of joint in which two plates come together but do not overlap, typically found in invertebrates.
The suture between the plates of the exoskeleton can be seen clearly.
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A stitch or row of stitches holding together the edges of a wound or surgical incision.
The doctor used a suture to close the wound.
Often appears as...
- absorbable suture
- non-absorbable suture
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To sew up a wound or part of the body using sutures.
They had to suture the deep cut on his leg.
Often appears as...
- suture the wound
- suture the incision
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A seam-like joint between two parts, especially in the skull.
The lambdoid suture is at the back of the skull.
Often appears as...
- coronal suture
- sagittal suture
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A type of joint in which two plates come together but do not overlap, typically found in invertebrates.
The suture between the plates of the exoskeleton can be seen clearly.
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Material Specificity
Sutures can be made from various materials affecting how they're used and referred to.
The surgeon chose a silk suture for its strength and reliability.
Pro Tip 2/3Technical Jargon
In medical context, 'suture' is technical and used among healthcare professionals.
The medical intern learned to tie a suture correctly.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-permanence
'Suture' often implies temporary stitching that may be removed after healing.
Her sutures were removed once the wound healed.
Pro Tip 1/3Material Specificity
Sutures can be made from various materials affecting how they're used and referred to.
The surgeon chose a silk suture for its strength and reliability.
Pro Tip 2/3Technical Jargon
In medical context, 'suture' is technical and used among healthcare professionals.
The medical intern learned to tie a suture correctly.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-permanence
'Suture' often implies temporary stitching that may be removed after healing.
Her sutures were removed once the wound healed.
Pro Tip 1/3Material Specificity
Sutures can be made from various materials affecting how they're used and referred to.
The surgeon chose a silk suture for its strength and reliability.
Pro Tip 2/3Technical Jargon
In medical context, 'suture' is technical and used among healthcare professionals.
The medical intern learned to tie a suture correctly.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-permanence
'Suture' often implies temporary stitching that may be removed after healing.
Her sutures were removed once the wound healed.
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Safari Live - Day 312 PIPE...
next to him and simply saying that's the highlights of my job we were sitting there and I said was eating some nuts and ting gana was right next to the car in the shade and said zip said this is the best part of my job getting to suture with a leopard while having a snack and he also said after that I wish there were we could go up and just
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Wild Tales with...
such an awful Hospital there's no windows it's blown out and the doctor turns and says do you have anything in your medical kit that we could sew your face up with like actually I now do so now that I carry my own sutures but I I told this story to Nikon because I said if you look really closely you can still see
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Printing a human kidney...
that we're able to implant back into the patient. For these specific patients, we actually just suture these materials. We use three-dimensional imagining analysis, but we actually created these biomaterials by hand. But we now have better ways to create these structures with the cells.
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Listening to shame PIPE...
We heard a brilliant simple solution to not killing people in surgery, which is, have a checklist. You can't fix that problem without addressing shame, because when they teach those folks how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful.
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How turtle shells...
Instead of curving downwards to make a regular rib cage, the ribs move outwards towards the carapacial ridge. They then secrete a signaling protein that converts surrounding cells into bone-forming cells. These fifty bones grow until they meet and connect with sutures.
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Drone First Aid PIPE...
light enough to be drone lifted we've got to pair all this down to have a kit that weighs about five ounces so normal first aid you have to include things like gloves scissors gauze bandage but they'll seem to the suture kit how much does that weight it weighs tomorrow
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Sturgeon Surgery PIPE...
where she deposits her eggs so this is a sonic tag and this tag has a life of about ten years these are long-lived things to me and we will get a lot of information I can see that she's still breathing strong her heels are moving so the tags in just suture it up
Video examples
Printing a human kidney...
you have your engineered organ that we're then able to implant back into the patient for these specific patients we actually just suture these materials we use three-dimensional imaging analysis but we actually created these biomaterials by hand but we now have
Video examples
Selling Survival:...
an incision in his own leg to show the importance of learning how to suture a wound we're also going to use this this pad to go ahead and sterilize our tools this is really important you're gonna kick yourself at this
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Preparing a Fossil PIPE...
this park is quite important they want to know how the bones are connected to bone akiko's first task is to find the cranial sutures which are the connection
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 312 PIPE...
next to him and simply saying that's the highlights of my job we were sitting there and I said was eating some nuts and ting gana was right next to the car in the shade and said zip said this is the best part of my job getting to suture with a leopard while having a snack and he also said after that I wish there were we could go up and just
Video examples
Wild Tales with...
such an awful Hospital there's no windows it's blown out and the doctor turns and says do you have anything in your medical kit that we could sew your face up with like actually I now do so now that I carry my own sutures but I I told this story to Nikon because I said if you look really closely you can still see
Video examples
Printing a human kidney...
that we're able to implant back into the patient. For these specific patients, we actually just suture these materials. We use three-dimensional imagining analysis, but we actually created these biomaterials by hand. But we now have better ways to create these structures with the cells.
Video examples
Listening to shame PIPE...
We heard a brilliant simple solution to not killing people in surgery, which is, have a checklist. You can't fix that problem without addressing shame, because when they teach those folks how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful.
Video examples
How turtle shells...
Instead of curving downwards to make a regular rib cage, the ribs move outwards towards the carapacial ridge. They then secrete a signaling protein that converts surrounding cells into bone-forming cells. These fifty bones grow until they meet and connect with sutures.
Video examples
Drone First Aid PIPE...
light enough to be drone lifted we've got to pair all this down to have a kit that weighs about five ounces so normal first aid you have to include things like gloves scissors gauze bandage but they'll seem to the suture kit how much does that weight it weighs tomorrow
Video examples
Sturgeon Surgery PIPE...
where she deposits her eggs so this is a sonic tag and this tag has a life of about ten years these are long-lived things to me and we will get a lot of information I can see that she's still breathing strong her heels are moving so the tags in just suture it up
Video examples
Printing a human kidney...
you have your engineered organ that we're then able to implant back into the patient for these specific patients we actually just suture these materials we use three-dimensional imaging analysis but we actually created these biomaterials by hand but we now have
Video examples
Selling Survival:...
an incision in his own leg to show the importance of learning how to suture a wound we're also going to use this this pad to go ahead and sterilize our tools this is really important you're gonna kick yourself at this
Video examples
Preparing a Fossil PIPE...
this park is quite important they want to know how the bones are connected to bone akiko's first task is to find the cranial sutures which are the connection
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Mark Fisher
British Writer
The paradoxical War on Terror is based on a kind of willed stupidity; the willed stupidity of wishful thinking. Only the logic of dreamwork can suture 'War' with 'Terror' in this way, since terrorists were, by classical definition, those without 'legitimate authority' to wage war.
Quote examples
Mark Fisher
British Writer
The paradoxical War on Terror is based on a kind of willed stupidity; the willed stupidity of wishful thinking. Only the logic of dreamwork can suture 'War' with 'Terror' in this way, since terrorists were, by classical definition, those without 'legitimate authority' to wage war.
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