The surgeon's suture technique minimizes scarring.
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Suture
//ˈsu.t͡ʃɚ//
Synonyms for "suture" (75 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (23)
Related words (37)
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More general
7 entriesderived
11 entrieshas context
3 entriesis a
6 entriesmanner of
1 entriespart of
1 entriesrelated to
16 entriesTranslations
76 translations across 31 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- naat noun (seam)
- steek noun (seam)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ῥάμμα noun (thread)
- ῥαφή noun (seam)
Bulgarian
4 entries- хирургически конец noun (thread)
- шев noun (seam)
- шев noun (type of fibrous joint which only occurs in the skull)
- зашивам verb (to sew up or join by means of a suture)
Catalan
1 entries- sutura noun (seam)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 縫合 /缝合 noun (seam)
Czech
3 entries- lebeční šev noun (type of fibrous joint which only occurs in the skull)
- steh noun (seam)
- šev noun (seam)
Dutch
3 entries- hechting noun (seam)
- naad noun (seam)
- hechten verb (to sew up or join by means of a suture)
Esperanto
1 entries- suturo noun (seam)
Faroese
1 entries- sársamanseyming noun (seam)
Finnish
4 entries- sauma noun (seam)
- sutuura noun (seam)
- ommella verb (to sew up or join by means of a suture)
- suturoida verb (to sew up or join by means of a suture)
French
2 entries- suture noun (seam)
- suturer verb (to sew up or join by means of a suture)
German
4 entries- Faden noun (thread)
- Knochennaht noun (type of fibrous joint which only occurs in the skull)
- Naht noun (seam)
- Sutur noun (type of fibrous joint which only occurs in the skull)
Greek
4 entries- ράμμα noun (thread)
- ραφή noun (seam)
- συρραφή noun (seam)
- συρράφω verb (to sew up or join by means of a suture)
Hungarian
2 entries- varrat noun (seam)
- varrat noun (thread)
Ido
1 entries- suto noun (seam)
Indonesian
2 entries- jahitan noun (seam)
- sutura noun (type of fibrous joint which only occurs in the skull)
Italian
1 entries- sutura noun (seam)
Japanese
2 entries- 縫い目 noun (seam)
- 縫合 noun (seam)
Latin
4 entries- sūtūra noun (seam)
- sūtūra noun (thread)
- sūtūra noun (type of fibrous joint which only occurs in the skull)
- suō verb (to sew up or join by means of a suture)
Lithuanian
3 entries- siūlas noun (thread)
- siūlė̃ noun (seam)
- susiūti verb (to sew up or join by means of a suture)
Macedonian
3 entries- ко́нец noun (thread)
- шев noun (seam)
- ши́е verb (to sew up or join by means of a suture)
Manx
3 entries- whaaley noun (seam)
- whaaley noun (thread)
- whaal verb (to sew up or join by means of a suture)
Māori
2 entries- hiki noun (seam)
- tuinga noun (seam)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- دیكیش noun (seam)
Polish
1 entries- szew noun (seam)
Portuguese
2 entries- ponto noun (seam)
- sutura noun (seam)
Romanian
3 entries- cusătură noun (seam)
- sutură noun (seam)
- sutură noun (thread)
Russian
3 entries- шов noun (seam)
- шов noun (thread)
- сшива́ть verb (to sew up or join by means of a suture)
Spanish
3 entries- sutura noun (seam)
- sutura noun (thread)
- suturar verb (to sew up or join by means of a suture)
Swedish
1 entries- sutur noun (seam)
Ukrainian
3 entries- шов noun (seam)
- зши́ти verb (to sew up or join by means of a suture)
- зшива́ти verb (to sew up or join by means of a suture)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new absorbable suture that breaks down in the body and does not need to be removed.
Source: tatoeba (11255934)
The doctor made sure to suture the wound.
Source: tatoeba (11535866)
After my surgery, I was given a suture removal kit by the hospital staff and was instructed on how to use it to remove the stitches at home.
Source: tatoeba (11562045)
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