Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The surgical uniting of divided tendons with sutures.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
tenosuture .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Surg.) Suture of a tendon.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[teno– + Greek rhaphē, suture (from rhaptein, to sew; see wer- in Indo-European roots) + –y.]
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