sutural
Once the procedure is complete, sutures or staples are used to close the incision.
By increasing the number of stitches in a suture, the chance of any leakage is decreased.
At first, researchers thought she was a child, but closed skull sutures suggest that she was about 30 when she died.

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Bone structures
suture
verb[ T ]
 medical specializeduk /ˈsuː.tʃər/ us /ˈsuː.tʃɚ/
to sew together a cut in a person's body: 缝合（伤口）
He had a couple of cuts that needed cleaning up and suturing.
Carefully suture the incision closed so the patient's wounds will heal.
Since the robot cauterizes blood vessels, they don't need to be sutured.
Finally, the abdominal wall was sutured.
He had a deep gash on his head that had been sutured, and his face was swollen.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Medical treatment: surgery
ablate
ablation
adenoidectomy
adrenalectomy
allograft
amputation
anaesthesia
blood transfusion
endarterectomy
endonasal
enterostomy
enucleate
enucleated
general anaesthetic
mastectomy
prostatectomy
pump something out
reduction mammaplasty
regraft
reimplant

Examples of suture

suture
The high incidence of complications was related to excessive shunt, especially with the prostheses sutured on the ascending aorta or on the brachiocephalic artery.
Monocular deprivation and reverse suture deprived eye and imposing the activity pattern modeling deprivation in the previously normal eye.
Solid lines represent the free margins of plates; serrated lines represent sutures; dotted lines represent scute sulci.
After injection of tracers the wound was closed in anatomic layers and the skin sutured.
The needle was then withdrawn, the wound was closed in anatomic layers and the skin sutured.
The effect of monocular lid suture is obvious in individual animals, because deprivation shrinks one eye's columns and expands the other's.
However, all skull distortions should not be referred to as craniosynostoses since a large number of cranial distortions are not associated with suture fusion.
The syringe was removed, the skull opening sealed with dental cement, and the skin sutured.
The sample vials and plugged catheter ends were placed in a canvas pouch sutured to the left flank region of the heifer.
This surgery implies wide mobilisation of tissue, resection and myometrial suture, which cause additional pain to the caesarean section.
A running 4/0 monofilament suture is used, reinforced with interrupted stitches.
The intestines were replaced in the peritoneal cavity and the abdominal and cutaneous wounds closed with separate sutures.
The role of three-dimensional ultrasound in visualizing the fetal cranial sutures and fontanels during the second half of pregnancy.
The suture effect in turn determines our own cinematic subjectivity, positioning us as sympathetic with the on-screen listening subject.
Postinjection, the dura mater and skin were sutured.
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