Suture



GRE 蓝宝 Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. ( 伤口的) 缝线; v.缝合
• ［英］ n. ( 伤口的) 缝线 ( a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body) ; v.缝合 ( to unite, close, or secure with sutures)
• ［类］ 反义词: incision ( 切开)
• ［记］ sut ( =sen 缝) +ure
• ［例］ suture a wound

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, from Latin sutura seam, suture, from sutus, past participle of suere to sew — more at sew
• Date: 15th century
• 1.
  • a. a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body; also a stitch made with a suture
  • b. the act or process of sewing with sutures
• 2.
  • a. a uniting of parts
  • b. the seam or seamlike line along which two things or parts are sewed or united
• 3.
  • a. the line of union in an immovable articulation (as between the bones of the skull); also such an articulation
  • b. a furrow at the junction of adjacent bodily parts; especially a line of dehiscence (as on a fruit)
• ? sutural adjective
• ? suturally adverb

II. transitive verb (sutured; suturing)

• Date: 1777
• to unite, close, or secure with sutures <suture a wound>

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