Usually means: Thread used to close wounds.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word suture:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. suture: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. suture: Merriam-Webster
  3. suture: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. suture: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. suture: Collins English Dictionary
  6. suture: Vocabulary.com
  7. Suture, suture: Wordnik
  8. suture: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Suture: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. suture: Wiktionary
  11. suture: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. suture: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. suture: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. suture: Dictionary.com
  15. suture: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. Suture (anatomy), Suture (disambiguation), Suture (film), Suture (geology), Suture (joint), Suture: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Suture: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. suture: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. suture: Rhymezone
  20. Suture: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. suture: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. suture: FreeDictionary.org
  23. suture: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. suture: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suture: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. suture: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Suture: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. Suture: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  7. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  8. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  9. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Glossary of Skeletal Anatomy (No longer online)
  11. suture: Medical dictionary
  12. Suture: Drug Medical Dictionary
  13. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bryological (No longer online)
  4. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

(Note: See sutural as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound.
noun:  Thread used to sew or stitch two edges (especially of skin) together.
noun:  (geology) An area where separate terrane join together along a major fault.
noun:  (anatomy) A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (botany) The seam at the union of two margins in a plant.
noun:  (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.
verb:  (transitive, also figurative) To sew up or join by means of a suture.

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