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Discover LudwigThe word "suture" is correct and usable in written English
It is a noun that means a type of thread used to stitch up a wound or surgical incision, or a line or seam formed by this thread. Here is an example sentence: The doctor used a small suture to close the incision in the patient's arm.
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suture
noun
A seam formed by sewing two edges (especially of skin) together.
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The result, as they recently reported in Biomacromolecules, is that they can spin bovine serum albumin into long, even fibres that are perfect for creating both suture threads and thick mats similar to conventional wound dressings, but on a small scale.
The ShapeLock device was recently used with great success in America's first transgastric procedures on humans.Having gained access to the abdomen, surgeons need to be able to cut, grasp and suture tissue.
Down the centre of her breastbone as far as the waist was a livid surgical suture.
To some, the arched snout and horns of skeletal Ice Age woolly rhinoceroses suggested not a vast land mammal, but the beak and claws of a giant bird.Baron Cuvier, a 19th-century zoologist, thought the unicorn not only mythical, but impossible, for its single central horn would have to grow out of a suture in the skull.
Because their shells have elaborate suture lines, they are easily identifiable; this quality, along with their abundance and rapid evolution, make them useful as index fossils for correlating and sequencing rocks.
That collision took place about 1,250 miles (2,000 km) south of the present location of the line of collision along the Indus-Brahmaputra suture behind the main range of the Himalayas.
The complexity of these suture patterns culminated in the ammonites of the Mesozoic Era.
This organ was somehow folded along the median line, with a meeting and coalescing of the margins of each half, the result being a miniature closed but hollow pod with one row of ovules along the suture.
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Thanks to clever brains and dextrous suckers, they can also open locks, unscrew jars and even untie surgical sutures.
I leave Nick deep in negotiations with a three-year-old boy who was impressively stoic while the cut on his forehead was sutured, but less so at the prospect of going home without that plastic truck.
FGM is a horrendous practice; the most severe form involves cutting off a girl's clitoris and labia and suturing the remaining tissue together, leaving a small hole for the passage of urine and menstrual blood.
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