suture

See also: suturé

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (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)

Noun

Photo of a suture (sense 1) comprising eight pieces of suture (sense 2)

(4) Cranial Sutures

suture (plural sutures)

1. A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound.
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.
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.

Derived terms

• coaptation suture
• coronal suture
• frontal suture
• glover's suture
• lambdoid suture
• metopic suture
• osteosuture
• sagittal suture
• sutural

 

Translations

seam

• Afrikaans: naat, steek (of skin)
• Bulgarian: шев (bg) m (šev)
• Catalan: sutura (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 縫合／缝合 (zh) (fénghé)

• Czech: steh (cs) m, šev (cs) m
• Dutch: naad (nl) m, hechting (nl) f (of skin)
• Faroese: sársamanseyming f
• Finnish: sauma (fi), sutuura (fi)
• French: suture (fr) f
• German: Naht (de) f, Wundnaht (de) f
• Greek: συρραφή (el) (syrrafí), ραφή (el) f (rafí)

  Ancient: ῥαφή f (rhaphḗ)

• Hungarian: varrat (hu)
• Ido: suto (io)
• Indonesian: jahitan (id)
• Italian: sutura (it) f
• Japanese: 縫合 (ja) (ほうごう, hōgō), 縫い目 (ja) (ぬいめ, nuime)
• Latin: sūtūra f
• Lithuanian: siūlė̃ (lt) f
• Macedonian: шев m (šev)
• Manx: whaaley m
• Maori: hiki, tuinga
• Ottoman Turkish: دیكیش (dikiş)
• Polish: szew (pl) m
• Portuguese: sutura (pt) f, ponto (pt) m
• Romanian: cusătură (ro) f, sutură (ro) f
• Russian: шов (ru) m (šov)
• Spanish: sutura (es) f
• Swedish: sutur (sv) c
• Ukrainian: шов m (šov)

thread

• Bulgarian: хирургически конец m (hirurgičeski konec)
• German: Faden (de) m
• Greek: ράμμα (el) n (rámma)

  Ancient: ῥάμμα n (rhámma)

• Hungarian: varrat (hu)
• Lithuanian: siūlas (lt) m
• Macedonian: ко́нец m (kónec)
• Manx: whaaley m
• Romanian: sutură (ro) f
• Russian: шов (ru) m (šov)
• Spanish: sutura (es) f

type of fibrous joint which only occurs in the skull

• Czech: lebeční šev m
• German: Knochennaht f, Sutur f
• Indonesian: sutura (id)

Verb

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.

Translations

to sew up or join by means of a suture

• Bulgarian: зашивам (bg) (zašivam)
• Dutch: hechten (nl)
• Finnish: ommella (fi), suturoida
• French: suturer (fr)
• German: nähen (de), vernähen (de)
• Greek: συρράφω (syrráfo)
• Lithuanian: susiūti
• Macedonian: ши́е (šíe)
• Manx: whaal
• Russian: сшива́ть (ru) (sšivátʹ)
• Spanish: suturar (es)

Anagrams

• uterus

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.tyʁ/

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

suture f (plural sutures)

1. (surgery) suture; stitch

Derived terms

• point de suture

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

suture

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

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

Italian

Noun

suture f

1. plural of sutura

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sūtūra.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

suture (plural suturez)

1. A suture; a seam made in surgical operations:
2. (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

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

Spanish

Verb

suture

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