suture

«suture» in Mova's school dictionary: a stitch, or a row of stitches, that a doctor uses to… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a suture, sutures); verb (suture, sutures, sutured, suturing)

meaning for a pupil

1) (medicine) A suture is a stitch, or a row of stitches, that a doctor uses to close a cut or wound. tree →

2) To suture a wound is to sew it closed. tree →

3) (science) A suture is also a fixed, wiggly joint between bones, like the lines where the bones of the skull meet. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and health lessons, doctors and nurses use sutures (stitches) for deep cuts; some sutures dissolve on their own, others must be removed after about a week. Babies have soft gaps between skull bones that later join at the sutures. In history, ancient doctors used thread, hair or even ant jaws to close wounds.

examples

• The doctor put five sutures in my cut. tree →
• The sutures will dissolve in a week. tree →
• The nurse took out the sutures from his knee. tree →
• The vet sutured the dog's leg. tree →
• Your skull has wiggly lines called sutures. tree →
• Some sutures are made of special thread. tree →
• Keep the sutures clean and dry. tree →

note

Countable: sutures. Everyday word: stitches. Say "SOO-cher". Do not confuse with "suitor" (someone who wants to marry a person) or "future".

In the corpora

• The skull has 22 bones: 8 around the brain and 14 in the face, joined by zigzag seams called sutures.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «suture» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.