SUTURE
Suture
In anatomy, a suture is a fairly rigid joint between two or more hard elements of an organism, with or without significant overlap of the elements.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Suture (anatomy)
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suture
Noun
- A seam formed by sewing two edges (especially of skin) together.
- Thread used to sew two edges (especially of skin) together; stitch.
- An area where separate terranes join together along a major fault.
- A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.
- 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.
Verb
- to sew up or join by means of a suture
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