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suture
suture is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of sewing; also, the line along which two things or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a seam, or that which resembles a seam. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 12 senses
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- 1noun
The act of sewing; also, the line along which two things or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a seam, or that which resembles a seam.
- 2noun
The uniting of the parts of a wound by stitching.
- 3noun
The stitch by which the parts are united.
- 4noun
The line of union, or seam, in an immovable articulation, like those between the bones of the skull; also, such an articulation itself; synarthrosis. See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic.
- 5noun
The line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins in any part of a plant; as, the ventral suture of a legume.
- 6noun
A line resembling a seam; as, the dorsal suture of a legume, which really corresponds to a midrib.
- 7noun
The line at which the elytra of a beetle meet and are sometimes confluent.
- 8noun
A seam, or impressed line, as between the segments of a crustacean, or between the whorls of a univalve shell.
- 9noun
thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together
- 10noun
a seam used in surgery
- 11noun
an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull)
- 12verb
join with a suture
"suture the wound after surgery"
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