Definition of suture

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Suture (n.) A line resembling a seam; as, the dorsal suture of a legume, which really corresponds to a midrib..

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Suturally :: Sutural (a.) Taking place at a suture; as, a sutural de/iscence..
Neuro-central :: Neuro-central (a.) Between the neural arch and the centrum of a vertebra; as, the neurocentral suture..
Synostosis :: Synosteosis (n.) Union by means of bone; the complete closing up and obliteration of sutures.
Sutural :: Sutural (a.) Of or pertaining to a suture, or seam..
Dehiscence :: Dehiscence (n.) A gaping or bursting open along a definite line of attachment or suture, without tearing, as in the opening of pods, or the bursting of capsules at maturity so as to emit seeds, etc.; also, the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries of animals, for the expulsion of their contents..
Sutured :: Suture (n.) A seam, or impressed line, as between the segments of a crustacean, or between the whorls of a univalve shell..
Seam :: Seam (n.) Hence, a line of junction; a joint; a suture, as on a ship, a floor, or other structure; the line of union, or joint, of two boards, planks, metal plates, etc..
Harmony :: Harmony (n.) See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic..
Suture :: Suture (n.) The uniting of the parts of a wound by stitching.
Uraniscorrhaphy :: Uraniscorrhaphy (n.) Suture of the palate. See Staphyloraphy.
Asterion :: Asterion (n.) The point on the side of the skull where the lambdoid, parieto-mastoid and occipito-mastoid sutures..
Limbous :: Limbous (a.) With slightly overlapping borders; -- said of a suture.
Sagittal :: Sagittal (a.) Of or pertaining to the sagittal suture; in the region of the sagittal suture; rabdoidal; as, the sagittal furrow, or groove, on the inner surface of the roof of the skull..
Lambdoid :: Lambdoid (a.) Shaped like the Greek letter lambda (/); as, the lambdoid suture between the occipital and parietal bones of the skull..
Silique :: Silique (n.) An oblong or elongated seed vessel, consisting of two valves with a dissepiment between, and opening by sutures at either margin. The seeds are attached to both edges of the dissepiment, alternately upon each side of it..
Synastry :: Synarthrosis (n.) Immovable articulation by close union, as in sutures. It sometimes includes symphysial articulations also. See the Note under Articulation, n., 1..
Headmould Shot :: Headmould shot () An old name for the condition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other at the sutures..
Suture :: Suture (n.) The act of sewing; also, the line along which two things or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a seam, or that which resembles a seam..
Suture :: Suture (n.) The line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins in any part of a plant; as, the ventral suture of a legume..
Bregma :: Bregma (n.) The point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull.
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