Definitions For Suture

noun

  • Thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together
  • A seam used in surgery
  • An immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull)
  • A stitch or a series of stitches used to close a cut or wound

verb

  • Join with a suture
  • To sew together (a cut, wound, etc.) : to close (something) with a suture

Is Suture a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
6
Words with Friends
8

The word Suture is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Suture in a Sentence

  • The surgeon sutured the incision.
  • The doctor cleaned, sutured, and bandaged the wound

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