suture

From Middle English suture, from Latin sūtūra (“suture”), from suere (“sew, join or tack together”) +‎ -tūra (forms action nouns).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈs(j)uː.tʃə/, /ˈs(j)uː.tjʊə/[1]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.t͡ʃɚ/[2][3][4]

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• Rhymes: -uːtʃə(ɹ)

Photo of a suture (sense 1) comprising eight pieces of suture (sense 2)

(4) Cranial Sutures

suture (plural sutures)

1. A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound.
2. Thread used to sew or stitch two edges (especially of skin) together.
3. (geology) An area where separate terrane join together along a major fault.
4. (anatomy) A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.
5. (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.
6. (botany) The seam at the union of two margins in a plant.
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.
   • 2011, Tzuchien Tho, “Introduction: One Divides into Two? Dividing the Conditions”, in Alain Badiou, The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic, →ISBN, page xix:

     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.

suture (third-person singular simple present sutures, present participle suturing, simple past and past participle sutured)

1. (transitive, also figurative) To sew up or join by means of a suture.

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• IPA^(key): /sy.tyʁ/

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Learned borrowing from Latin sūtūra (“suture”). Compare couture.

suture f (plural sutures)

1. (surgery) suture; stitch

• point de suture

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

suture

1. inflection of suturer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “suture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• tueurs, utérus

suture

1. inflection of suturar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

suture f

1. plural of sutura

Borrowed from Latin sūtūra.

• IPA^(key): /siu̯ˈtiu̯r(ə)/, /ˈsiu̯tiu̯r(ə)/

suture (plural suturez)

1. A suture; a seam made in surgical operations:
2. (rare, anatomy) A slight bodily indentation.

• English: suture

• “sūtūre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-17.

suture

1. inflection of suturar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

suture

1. inflection of suturar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative