Suture

['suːtʃə] or ['sutʃɚ]

解释:

(noun.) thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together.

(noun.) a seam used in surgery.

(noun.) an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull).

(verb.) join with a suture; 'suture the wound after surgery'.

阿维斯整理--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) The act of sewing; also, the line along which two things or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a seam, or that which resembles a seam.

(n.) The uniting of the parts of a wound by stitching.

(n.) The stitch by which the parts are united.

(n.) The line of union, or seam, in an immovable articulation, like those between the bones of the skull; also, such an articulation itself; synarthrosis. See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic.

(n.) The line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins in any part of a plant; as, the ventral suture of a legume.

(n.) A line resembling a seam; as, the dorsal suture of a legume, which really corresponds to a midrib.

(n.) The line at which the elytra of a beetle meet and are sometimes confluent.

(n.) A seam, or impressed line, as between the segments of a crustacean, or between the whorls of a univalve shell.

阿伊达整理

同义词及近义词：

n. Line of junction.

贺拉斯校对

解释:

n. the mode of connection between the various bones of the cranium and face—serrated when formed by the union of two edges of bone with projections and indentations fitting into one another—squamous when formed by the overlapping of the bevelled edges of two contiguous bones: (surg.) the sewing up of a wound by one or other mode so as to maintain the opposed surfaces in contact: (bot.) the seam at the union of two margins in a plant.—adj. Sū′tūral relating to a suture.—adv. Sū′tūrally.—n. Sūtūrā′tion.—adj. Sū′tūred having or united by sutures.

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