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Definition: Suture |
SutureNoun1. An immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull). 2. A seam used in surgery. 3. Thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together. Verb1. Join with a suture, as of a wound in surgery. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "suture" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references) |
Etymology: Suture \Su"ture\, noun. [Latin expression sutura, from suere, sutum, to sew or stitch: compare to the French expression suture. See Sew to unite with thread.]. (references) |
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Medicine | The interlocking lines of fusion of the seperate bones which unite to form the cranium. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A surgical stitch. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The surgical stitch itself. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A stitch or series of stitches made to secure apposition of the edges of a surgical or accidental wound. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Synonyms: SutureSynonyms: fibrous joint (n), surgical seam (n), sutura (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Junction | Commissure, seam, gore, gusset, suture,commissure, seam, gore, gusset, suture, stitch; link; miter mortise. |
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Lyrics | You're the wound and I'm the suture (Brand New Day; performing artist: Sting) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [Bandages and suture techniques]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Various types of suture techniques and instruments] / J.M.B. sc. 1734. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Continuous mattress suture. / [Herbert L. Treusch]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | The Gross Clinic, 1875 / By Thomas Eakins. Ethicon Suture Laboratories. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | SCAPHOCEPHALY applies to premature fusion of the sagittal suture. (references) | |
The sagittal suture joins together the two parietal bones of skull. (references) | ||
In most instances, suture reapproximation of mammary tissue should be avoided. (references) | ||
Business | While the government views that charging patients is illegal because, in theory, device costs are included in the service fees, it has not yet offered an alternative for covering the costs of devices such certain surgical instruments, suture, syringes or needles. (references) | |
Economic History | Korea | Products that present the best export prospects for U.S. exporters include various high-tech medical products, including sterilizers, rehabilitation equipment, respiration equipment, orthopedic joints, diagnostic ultrasound scanners, magnetic resonance imaging systems, patient monitors, computer tomography scanners, catheters, artificial kidneys and dialysis machines, suture, suture needles, general surgical instruments, operation tables, ophthalmic equipment, endoscopes, intraocular lenses, artificial heart valves and dental equipment and supplies. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Suture" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.43% of the time. "Suture" is used about 84 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.43% | 81 | 36,835 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.38% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.19% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 84 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "suture": Coronal suture ♦ frontal suture ♦ Glover's suture ♦ Harmonic suture ♦ incisive suture ♦ intermaxillary suture ♦ internasal suture ♦ interparietal suture ♦ lamboid suture ♦ metopic suture ♦ occipitomastoid suture ♦ parietomastoid suture ♦ Quilled suture ♦ rabdoidal suture ♦ sagittal suture ♦ serrated suture ♦ suture or stitch ♦ wound suture. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "suture": suture-lines. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "suture"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qepje plagu, qepje (rush, sewing), fije për qepje plagu. (various references) | |
Arabic | قطوب الجراحة, قطب الجرح, خيط يستخدم بالجراحة, خاط (sew, stitch, tailor). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съшиване, шев (dart, joint, junction, making, needlework, raphe, seam, stitchery), конец за зашиване на рана, зашивам (sew in, sew together, stitch up). (various references) | |
Chinese | 缝合 (seamed, Seaming, sew, sewed, sewing, sewn, Sutured, suturing). (various references) | |
Czech | steh (lockstitch, stitch), sešití, šev (join, seam). (various references) | |
Danish | suturering, sutur (wound suture), sammensyning, sårsutur (wound suture), knoglesutur. (various references) | |
Dutch | naad (seam), hechting (seam), hechten (glue, seam, stick), dichtnaaien (seam). (various references) | |
Esperanto | suturo (seam), suturi (seam). (various references) | |
Faeroese | penta (seam). (various references) | |
Farsi | چاک (Cut, Hack, Incision, Interstice, Rift, Rip, Scotch, Slit, Slot, Split, Tear), شکاف (Break, Chap, Chasm, Chink, Clef, Crack, Craze, Crevice, Cut, Fraction, Fracture, Hiatus, Incision, Interstice, Nick, Notch, Overture, Rake, Rip, Scar, Seam, Slash, Slit, Slither, Split), دوختن (Bind, Sew, Steek), درز (Crevice, Gap, Interstice, Peephole, Seam, Slit), بخیه (Stitch). (various references) | |
Finnish | ommel (seam). (various references) | |
French | suture (wound suture). (various references) | |
German | zunähen (sew up, to suture). (various references) | |
Greek | ραφή (juncture, religious painting, seam, sewing, stitch). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תפר (fell, seam, stitch). (various references) | |
Hungarian | varrat (seam, welt). (various references) | |
Indonesian | jahitan luka. (various references) | |
Italian | sutura (stitching). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 縫合 (seam). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぬいいと (sewing thread), ぬいめ (seam, stitch), ほう"う (priest's name or posthumous Buddhist name, seam). (various references) | |
Korean | 봉합사. (various references) | |
Manx | whaaley (clincher nail, clinchnail, cobble, seam, sew, stitch). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uturesay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | suturar, sutura (dart). (various references) | |
Romanian | suturã, sutura. (various references) | |
Russian | сутура, сшивать шов, шов (joint, seam, stiches, stitch), наложение шва. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sutura, šivenje (needlework, sewing), šav (joint, seam, stitch, tuck). (various references) | |
Spanish | sutura (seam). (various references) | |
Swedish | sutur (seam), fog (joint, justice, lap, reason, right, seam). (various references) | |
Thai | การเย็บแผล. (various references) | |
Turkish | ek yeri (commissure, join, joint, juncture, scarf, splice), dikmek (bed, bed out, construct, crop, engraft, erect, fix, ingraft, lay down, needle, perk, perk up, plant, post, prick, prick up, put stitches in, raise, rear, rest, rest on, rivet, seam, seam together, seam up, set, set out, set up, sew, sew up, sow, stitch up, tailor, Upend), dikiş yeri (juncture, seam), dikiş atmaya yarayan ip, dikiş atmak (put stitches in, stitch up), dikiş (needlework, seam, sewing, stitch), derz. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шов (dart, seam), накладати шов, зшивання. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chỉ khâu, đường ráp. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | sutura. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "suture": sutured, sutures. (additional references) | |
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"Suture" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cuture, satori, satur, satura, saturd, Saturdee, sauoure, scutage, strue, sture, sturee, sucurre, suiture, Suthren, sutro, sutur, sutural, suuri. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "suture" (pronounced suw"kher) |
| 3 | -uw" kh er | future. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: uterus. | |
| Words within the letters "e-r-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: trues. | |
-2 letters: erst, rest, rets, rues, ruse, rust, ruts, suer, suet, sure, true, urus, user. | |
-3 letters: ers, res, ret, rue, rut, ser, set, sue, use, uts. | |
-4 letters: er, es, et, re, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-r-s-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: auteurs, futures, sutured, sutures. | |
+2 letters: auguster, coutures, cultures, cutpurse, frustule, hauteurs, multures, nurtures, outcurse, ruptures, sequitur, sulfuret, tuberous, unrusted, untruest, uteruses, vultures. | |
+3 letters: arbutuses, auteurist, brusquest, courteous, cubatures, cutpurses, frustules, junctures, menstruum, multiuser, nurturers, outargues, outcursed, outcurses, outcurves, outrushed, outrushes, punctures, resultful, sculpture, sepulture, sequiturs, strenuous, structure, sulfurets, supercute, superstud, suppurate, thesaurus, tremulous, trousseau, trouveurs, trueblues, tubulures, turquoise, undercuts, unrestful, unruliest, untrussed, untrusses, uppercuts, venturous. | |
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