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See also: suturé
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English suture, from Latin sūtūra (“suture”), from suere (“sew, join or tack together”) + -tūra (forms action nouns).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈs(j)uː.tʃə/, /ˈs(j)uː.tjʊə/[1]
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈsu.t͡ʃɚ/[2][3][4]
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -uːtʃə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]suture (plural sutures)
- A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound.
- Thread used to sew or stitch two edges (especially of skin) together.
- (geology) An area where separate terrane join together along a major fault.
- (anatomy) A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.
- (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.
- (botany) The seam at the union of two margins in a plant.
- (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.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]seam
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thread
type of fibrous joint which only occurs in the skull
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Verb
[edit]suture (third-person singular simple present sutures, present participle suturing, simple past and past participle sutured)
- (transitive, also figurative) To sew up or join by means of a suture.
Translations
[edit]to sew up or join by means of a suture
References
[edit]- ^ The Chambers Dictionary, 9th Ed., 2003
- ^ “suture”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ^ “suture”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ “suture”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin sūtūra (“suture”). Compare couture.
Noun
[edit]suture f (plural sutures)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]suture
- inflection of suturer:
Further reading
[edit]- “suture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Galician
[edit]Verb
[edit]suture
- inflection of suturar:
Italian
[edit]Noun
[edit]suture f
Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]suture (plural suturez)
Descendants
[edit]- English: suture
References
[edit]- “sūtūre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-17.
Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]suture
- inflection of suturar:
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]suture
- inflection of suturar:
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