suture

(su'chiir) [L. suiura, a seam.] i. synarthrosis between two bones formed in membrane, the uniting medium (which tends to disappear eventually) being a fibrous membrane continuous with the periosteum; an anatomical suture. ^. The surgical uniting of two surfaces by means of stitches. The material, silk thread, catgut, wire, etc., twisted, flgure-op-8, or which the two sur- Harelip Suture. faces are kept in apposition. 4. The seam so formed; a surgical suture. [For the anatomical sutures see suiura.] apposition s., a s. of the skin only, approxima'- tion s., one involving the deep ti ues, buried s., a s. of the deeper ti ues which is entirely covered when the cutaneous lips of the wound are approximated, button s., one in which the threads are pa ed through the eyes of a button and then tied; used when there is danger of the threads cutting through the flesh, coapt a'tion s., apposition s. cobbler's s., one made with a thread having a needle at each end. contin'uous