Definition of suture

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Suture (n.) The line at which the elytra of a beetle meet and are sometimes confluent.

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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 line at which the elytra of a beetle meet and are sometimes confluent.
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..
Sutural :: Sutural (a.) Of or pertaining to a suture, or seam..
Metopic :: Metopic (a.) Of or pertaining to the forehead or frontal bones; frontal; as, the metopic suture..
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..
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..
Cannulated :: Cannulated (a.) Hollow; affording a passage through its interior length for wire, thread, etc.; as, a cannulated (suture) needle..
Harmony :: Harmony (n.) See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic..
Lambda :: Lambda (n.) The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull.
Suwarrow :: Sutured (a.) Having a suture or sutures; knit or united together.
Bregma :: Bregma (n.) The point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull.
Suture :: Suture (n.) The uniting of the parts of a wound by stitching.
Obelion :: Obelion (n.) The region of the skull between the two parietal foramina where the closure of the sagittal suture usually begins.
Synostosis :: Synosteosis (n.) Union by means of bone; the complete closing up and obliteration of sutures.
Follicle :: Follicle (n.) A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed..
Limbous :: Limbous (a.) With slightly overlapping borders; -- said of a suture.
Suturally :: Sutural (a.) Taking place at a suture; as, a sutural de/iscence..
Uraniscorrhaphy :: Uraniscorrhaphy (n.) Suture of the palate. See Staphyloraphy.
Synastry :: Synarthrosis (n.) Immovable articulation by close union, as in sutures. It sometimes includes symphysial articulations also. See the Note under Articulation, n., 1..
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