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suture

/soo-cher/US // ˈsu tʃər //UK // (ˈsuːtʃə) //

缝合,缝线,缝合线,缝合剂

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Surgery. a joining of the lips or edges of a wound or the like by stitching or some similar process.a particular method of doing this.one of the stitches or fastenings employed.
    • : Anatomy. the line of junction of two bones, especially of the skull, in an immovable articulation.the articulation itself.
    • : Zoology, Botany. the junction or line of junction of contiguous parts, as the line of closure between the valves of a bivalve shell, a seam where carpels of a pericarp join, etc.
    • : a seam as formed in sewing; a line of junction between two parts.
    • : a sewing together or a joining as by sewing.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    su·tured, su·tur·ing.

    • : to unite by or as by a suture.

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Examples

  • Before starting her suture research, Taylor spent years focused on racial equity work in her community.

  • She had the idea as a high school junior in Iowa after she read about sutures that use technology to detect wound changes and can sync to a smartphone.

  • She wants to patent her beet-infused sutures, continue additional studies, and work toward getting it licensed so it can be put into practice.

  • Taylor developed a surgical suture additive from the root vegetable’s extract that changes color when an infection is present.

  • He says that this suture insures the redintegration of the nerve much better.

  • The preferable suture material in his experience was silk or linen.

  • The inflexed or inferior lateral margin of the Prothorax, separated in many genera from the Antepectus by a suture.

  • The relative lengths of the prefrontal and internasal sutures are subequal, or the prefrontal suture is slightly longer.

  • This I secured at once with suture and the accident had no bad consequences.