glover's suture

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English

Noun

glover's suture (plural glover's sutures)

  1. A kind of stitch used in sewing up wounds, in which the thread is drawn alternately through each side from within outward.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for glover's suture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)