English noun: suture |
1. | suture (body) an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull) |
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| Synonyms | fibrous joint, sutura |
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| Broader (hypernym) | articulatio, articulation, joint |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | coronal suture, frontal suture, intermaxillary suture, internasal suture, interparietal suture, lamboid suture, occipitomastoid suture, parietomastoid suture, sagittal suture, sutura coronalis, sutura frontalis, sutura intermaxillaris, sutura internasalis, sutura lamboidea, sutura sagittalis |
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2. | suture (artifact) a seam used in surgery |
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| Synonyms | surgical seam |
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| Broader (hypernym) | seam |
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3. | suture (artifact) thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together |
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| Broader (hypernym) | thread, yarn |
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| Substance holonym | catgut, gut |
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