Sutures

What do we mean by 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.

An area where separate terrane join together along a major fault.

A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.

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.

The seam at the union of two margins in a plant.

The process of joining two surfaces or edges together along a line by or as if by sewing. The material, such as thread, gut, or wire, that is used in this procedure. The line or stitch so formed. Urban Dictionary

"In Sutures" Humor that is so convulsively, side-splittingly hilarious, that you crack up and fall apart from laughing so hard, and metaphorically speaking, you require remedial surgery. The hyperbole of being "in stitches". Urban Dictionary

A term for removing one’s own stitches / also applies to stitching one’s own wounds, a less common occurrence than the removal of one's own sutures that were sown in by a healthcare professional Urban Dictionary

What a doctor shruggingly remarks when someone requests a different-from-the-standard-practice procedure for stitching up a wound, and said physician cannot see what difference said alternative method would make, but wants to accommodate the patient whenever possible. Urban Dictionary

1. Attempting to stitch up one's torn Karma, before it gets worse. 2. Making a repair to a damaged Karma. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to sutures:
sutures, suture, futures, sutured.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word sutures:
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Words that rhyme with sutures:
futures.

Adjectives that are often used to describe sutures:
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Consonant match to sutures:
such as, searches, searchers, seiches, say cheese, search his, search is, search whose, seiche is, such ease, such eyes, such his, such is.

Words that sound like sutures:
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