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From Middle English suture, from Latin sūtūra (“suture”), from suere (“sew, join or tack together”) +‎ -tūra (forms action nouns).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈs(j)uː.tʃə/, /ˈs(j)uː.tjʊə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.t͡ʃɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːtʃə(ɹ)

suture (plural sutures)

1. A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound.
   • 2016 February 6, “Cranial Anatomy and Palaeoneurology of the Archosaur Riojasuchus tenuisceps from the Los Colorados Formation, La Rioja, Argentina”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:

     Although the sutures are difficult to trace, the supraoccipital contacts the parietal anteriorly at a tight interdigitated suture, and contacts the ophistotic posterolaterally at a straight suture.

2. Thread used to sew or stitch two edges (especially of skin) together.
3. (geology) An area where separate terrane join together along a major fault.
4. (anatomy) A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.
5. (anatomy) 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.
6. (botany) The seam at the union of two margins in a plant.
   • 1894, James M. Crombie, A Monograph of Lichens Found in Britain (page 329)

     It is also generally marked above by flexuose anastomosing black, indented lines, whence it appears as if insculpt with rivulose sutures.

7. (philosophy, figurative) The procedure by which a subject comes to be identified with its own representation, as in the identification of the speaker with the sign “I” within a certain discourse; (by extension) any process by which the content of something is determined or supplied from outside itself.
   • 2011, Tzuchien Tho, “Introduction: One Divides into Two? Dividing the Conditions”, in Alain Badiou, The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic, →ISBN, page xix:

     The suture of science and philosophy constitutes an identification of philosophical thought and scientific objectivity that is unfortunately typical of contemporary so-called ‘analytic’ philosophy. Yet, the over-identification of philosophical tasks with science itself signifies a veritable retreat from philosophy itself.

suture (third-person singular simple present sutures, present participle suturing, simple past and past participle sutured)

1. (transitive, also figurative) To sew up or join by means of a suture.

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• IPA^(key): /sy.tyʁ/

• Audio:

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Learned borrowing from Latin sūtūra (“suture”). Compare couture.

suture f (plural sutures)

1. (surgery) suture; stitch

• point de suture

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

suture

1. inflection of suturer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “suture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• tueurs, utérus

suture

1. inflection of suturar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

suture f

1. plural of sutura

Borrowed from Latin sūtūra.

• IPA^(key): /siu̯ˈtiu̯r(ə)/, /ˈsiu̯tiu̯r(ə)/

suture (plural suturez)

1. A suture; a seam made in surgical operations:
2. (rare, anatomy) A slight bodily indentation.

• English: suture

• “sūtūre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-17.

suture

1. inflection of suturar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

suture

1. inflection of suturar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative