Definition of suture

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Suture (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..

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Interparietal :: Interparietal (a.) Between the parietal bones or cartilages; as, the interparietal suture..
Suture :: Suture (n.) The stitch by which the parts are united.
Metopic :: Metopic (a.) Of or pertaining to the forehead or frontal bones; frontal; as, the metopic suture..
Bregma :: Bregma (n.) The point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull.
Suture :: Suture (n.) A line resembling a seam; as, the dorsal suture of a legume, which really corresponds to a midrib..
Headmould Shot :: Headmould shot () An old name for the condition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other at the sutures..
Suture :: Suture (n.) The line at which the elytra of a beetle meet and are sometimes confluent.
Suture :: Suturated (a.) Sewed or knit together; united by a suture; stitched.
Asterion :: Asterion (n.) The point on the side of the skull where the lambdoid, parieto-mastoid and occipito-mastoid sutures..
Dehiscence :: Dehiscence (n.) A gaping or bursting open along a definite line of attachment or suture, without tearing, as in the opening of pods, or the bursting of capsules at maturity so as to emit seeds, etc.; also, the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries of animals, for the expulsion of their contents..
Follicle :: Follicle (n.) A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed..
Sutured :: Suture (n.) A seam, or impressed line, as between the segments of a crustacean, or between the whorls of a univalve shell..
Suture :: Suture (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..
Uraniscorrhaphy :: Uraniscorrhaphy (n.) Suture of the palate. See Staphyloraphy.
Synastry :: Synarthrosis (n.) Immovable articulation by close union, as in sutures. It sometimes includes symphysial articulations also. See the Note under Articulation, n., 1..
Shotted :: Shotted (a.) Having a shot attached; as, a shotten suture..
Suwarrow :: Sutured (a.) Having a suture or sutures; knit or united together.
Neuro-central :: Neuro-central (a.) Between the neural arch and the centrum of a vertebra; as, the neurocentral suture..
Stephanite :: Stephanion (n.) The point on the side of the skull where the temporal line, or upper edge of the temporal fossa, crosses the coronal suture..
Lambda :: Lambda (n.) The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull.
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