suture en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- [ˈs(j)ʊu̯.tʃə]
- [ˈsʊu̯.t͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈsʊu̯.t͡ʃɹ̩] (General-American)
- [ˈs(j)ʊu̯.tʰjʊə]
- /ˈs(j)uː.tjʊə/
- /ˈsu.t͡ʃɚ/ (General-American)
- /ˈs(j)uː.tʃə/
Etymology
From Middle English suture, from Latin sūtūra (“suture”), from suere (“sew, join or tack together”) + -tūra (forms action nouns).
Meanings
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A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound.
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.
2016 February 6, “Cranial Anatomy and Palaeoneurology of the Archosaur Riojasuchus tenuisceps from the Los Colorados Formation, La Rioja, Argentina”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
- Thread used to sew or stitch two edges (especially of skin) together.
- An area where separate terrane join together along a major fault.
- A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.
- 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.
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The seam at the union of two margins in a plant.
It is also generally marked above by flexuose anastomosing black, indented lines, whence it appears as if insculpt with rivulose sutures.
1894, James M. Crombie, A Monograph of Lichens Found in Britain, page 329:
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(figuratively) 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.
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.
2011, Tzuchien Tho, “Introduction: One Divides into Two? Dividing the Conditions”, in Alain Badiou, The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic, →ISBN, page xix:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| sutures | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
coronal suture · sutural · glover's suture · multisuture · sagittal suture · metopic suture · squamosal suture · osteosuture · lambdoid suture · suturelike · venisuture · sutureless · suturation · pursestring suture · suture tree · coaptation suture · hydrosuture · microsuture · frontal suture · suturectomy · squamous suture · purse-string suture
Translations (60)
el συρραφή (seam) · bg шев (seam) · sv sutur (seam) · nl hechting (seam) · pl szew (seam) · af steek (seam) · ru шов (thread) · af naat (seam) · el ράμμα (thread) · bg хирургически конец (thread) · hu varrat (thread) · lt siūlė̃ (seam) · de Faden (thread) · ru шов (seam) · la sūtūra (type of fibrous joint which only occurs in the skull) · mk ко́нец (thread) · uk шов (seam) · fr suture (seam) · mi tuinga (seam) · ro sutură (thread) · cs lebeční šev (type of fibrous joint which only occurs in the skull) · pt sutura (seam) · ota دیكیش (seam) · io suto (seam) · gv whaaley (thread) · hu varrat (seam) · lt siūlas (thread) · ja 縫合 (seam) · es sutura (thread) · ro cusătură (seam) · nl naad (seam) · cmn 縫合 /缝合 (seam) · it sutura (seam) · de Knochennaht (type of fibrous joint which only occurs in the skull) · la sūtūra (seam) · la sūtūra (thread) · cs steh (seam) · de Sutur (type of fibrous joint which only occurs in the skull) · cs šev (seam) · eo suturo (seam) · es sutura (seam) · grc ῥάμμα (thread) · de Wundnaht (seam) · fi sauma (seam) · mk шев (seam) · gv whaaley (seam) · fi sutuura (seam) · fo sársamanseyming (seam) · mi hiki (seam) · pt ponto (seam) · ro sutură (seam) · id sutura (type of fibrous joint which only occurs in the skull) · bg шев (type of fibrous joint which only occurs in the skull) · el ραφή (seam) · ca sutura (seam) · ba йөй (seam) · grc ῥαφή (seam) · ja 縫い目 (seam) · id jahitan (seam) · de Naht (seam)