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  • noun Plural form of suture.

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Examples

  • I think it was the combo of the big hole, the unexpected wait and and then the Frankenstein sutures, and I expect I'll feel much better about things in a week or so.

    Mohs Nose Woes - Part 2 aka TBTAM 2008

  • Thus, the bones of the skull are dovetailed by joints called sutures, which are immovable.

    A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

  • These are called the sutures, and in infancy they are not joined.

    The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island Roger Thompson Finlay

  • That white spheroidal mass, with its grinning rows and serrated sutures, that is a human skull.

    The Scalp Hunters Mayne Reid 1850

  • The surgeon who carved his initials into someone's sutures, that is a cause for malpractice.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local r22037 2010

  • There is normally some space, called sutures, between several bones that make up the skull in the infant and craniosynostosis ocurrs when these bones fuse together too early.

    PR.com Press Releases Maternal J. Pediatric 2010

  • The surgeon who carved his initials into someone's sutures, that is a cause for malpractice.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local OpenMinded 2010

  • There is normally some space, called sutures, between several bones that make up the skull in the infant and craniosynostosis ocurrs when these bones fuse together too early.

    PR.com Press Releases Maternal J. Pediatric 2010

  • Fortunately the anaesthetic did its job and the sutures are the easiest part.

    5 Minutes For Mom Janice 2010

  • The surgeon who carved his initials into someone's sutures, that is a cause for malpractice.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local r22037 2010

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