# suture
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈs(j)uː.tʃə/, /ˈs(j)uː.tjʊə/
* (US) IPA: /ˈsu.t͡ʃɚ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːtʃə(ɹ)

### Noun

suture (plural sutures)
* 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.
* 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

* coaptation suture
* coronal suture
* frontal suture
* glover's suture
* lambdoid suture
* metopic suture
* osteosuture
* sagittal suture
* squamosal suture
* squamous suture
* sutural

#### Translations
### Verb

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
### References

* ↑ 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

* uterus

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sy.tyʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

suture f (plural sutures)
* (surgery) suture; stitch

##### Derived terms

* point de suture

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

suture
* inflection of suturer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “suture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* tueurs, utérus

## Galician
### Verb

suture
* inflection of suturar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Italian
### Noun

suture f
* plural of sutura

## Middle English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sūtūra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /siu̯ˈtiu̯r(ə)/, /ˈsiu̯tiu̯r(ə)/

### Noun

suture (plural suturez)
* A suture; a seam made in surgical operations:
* (rare, anatomy) A slight bodily indentation.

#### Descendants

* English: suture

#### References

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

## Portuguese
### Verb

suture
* inflection of suturar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Verb

suture
* inflection of suturar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative