Wordnet Dictionary

Welcome

Wordnet Dictionary
Noun suture has 3 senses
  1. suture, sutura, fibrous joint - an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull)
    --1 is a kind of joint, articulation, articulatio
    --1 has particulars:
     coronal suture, sutura coronalis; frontal suture, sutura frontalis; intermaxillary suture, sutura intermaxillaris; internasal suture, sutura internasalis; lamboid suture, sutura lamboidea; occipitomastoid suture; parietomastoid suture; sagittal suture, interparietal suture, sutura sagittalis
  2. suture, surgical seam - a seam used in surgery
    --2 is a kind of seam
    Derived form: verb suture1
  3. suture - thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together
    --3 is a kind of     thread, yarn
    --3 has substances: catgut, gut
    Derived form: verb suture1
,Verb suture has 1 sense
  1. suture - join with a suture; "suture the wound after surgery"
    --1 is one way to     seam
    Derived forms: noun suture3, noun suture2, noun suturing1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
,
TOP