11 example sentences using suture.
Suture used in a sentence
Suture in a sentence as a noun
Did I opt for the $30 suture kit and do it myself?
We already have a name for this in film theory; it's called suture, our ability to mentally 'stitch things together.
I have no illusions about being able to suture myself up if I needed it, but I do have hope that I could find someone with the skills to do so.
It was within my scope of practice to help the doctor suture at the end of the case as well as apply staples and bandaging so that they didn’t need to.
Something's got to interview, intubate, suture, palpate, and prescribe all those bleeding, festering, diabetic masses flowing into the ER like the tide of the Thames.
Rogozov made a 10–12 cm incision of the abdominal wall, but while opening the peritoneum he accidentally cut the cecum and had to suture it.
Suture in a sentence as a verb
If you're in a surgical residency and you can't do the basic tasks like suture a wound before you become a surgical intern, you're in trouble, because your first night on call you're going to be doing one.
I'd argue that brain surgery is even _more_ an example of where the ability to cut, suture, and otherwise tweak the brain is less than 1% of what makes you chose a particular brain surgeon to go messing around inside your noggin.
I learned to suture from a textbook and an online vid, practiced on a piece of foam and some pig skin, and managed a perfectly serviceable if not quite cosmetically perfect suture on my first attempt on a living patient.
That led to having a 'suture kit' in my day pack because one of the common themes was that there were emergency personnel around who were trying to help but they were often without or short on basic supplies to treat severe lacerations.
About 10 years ago when I was in high school I got a cut on my chin that required stitches, my mom got an urgent appointment with my *** later that day–who then told me to go the ER, saying, "we don't even have a suture in this clinic" We were trying to save time, money and not burden the system, and instead shot ourselves in the foot.
Suture definitions
an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull)
See also: sutura
a seam used in surgery
thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together
join with a suture; "suture the wound after surgery"