Synonyms for suture
ˈsu tʃərsu·ture

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1. suture, sutura, fibrous jointnoun

   an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull)

   Synonyms:
   sutura, surgical seam, fibrous joint

2. suture, surgical seamnoun

   a seam used in surgery

   Synonyms:
   sutura, surgical seam, fibrous joint

3. sutureverb

   thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together

   Synonyms:
   sutura, surgical seam, fibrous joint

4. sutureverb

   join with a suture

   "suture the wound after surgery"

Matched Categories

1. • Joint
   • Seam

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. suturenoun

   Synonyms:
   line of junction

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1. List of paraphrases for "suture":

   stitch, stitching, coronal, sew

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1. David Teuscher:

   What has to happen is the tendon has to be reattached to the bone, typically we use non-absorbable or absorbable suture anchors into the humerus bone, and [that] ties the tendon back to the bone, but that won’t hold forever, it has to have a biologic process and undergo a strengthening period.

2. Oliver Jagoutz:

   Every time you had an ice age, you had an increased suture zone length in the tropics.

3. Mellow Johnnys in Austin:

   Businesses can no longer be non-participants in the communities they serve, we chose what we think will do the most to suture these divides and place our community on the right side of history. We have had to make these choices before when we felt companies whose products we sold put kids at schools at risk of violence. We lost sales due to this choice.