How to pronounce “suture”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound.
• Thread used to sew or stitch two edges (especially of skin) together.
• (geology) An area where separate terrane join together along a major fault.
• (anatomy) A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.
• (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.
• (botany) The seam at the union of two margins in a plant.
• (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.
• [Verb]
• (transitive, also figurative) To sew up or join by means of a suture.

Practice Nearby Words

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