suture /su·ture/ (soo´cher)
1. sutura.
2. a stitch or series of stitches made to secure apposition of the edges of a surgical or traumatic wound.
3. to apply such stitches.
4. material used in closing a wound with stitches.su´tural
absorbable suture a strand of material used for closing wounds which is subsequently dissolved by the tissue fluids.
apposition suture a superficial suture used for exact approximation of the cutaneous edges of a wound.
approximation suture a deep suture for securing apposition of the deep tissue of a wound.
buried suture one placed deep in the tissues and concealed by the skin.
catgut suture see surgical gut, under gut.
coaptation suture apposition s.
cobblers' suture one made with suture material threaded through a needle at each end.
continuous suture one in which a continuous, uninterrupted length of material is used.
coronal suture the line of junction of the frontal bone with the two parietal bones.
cranial sutures the lines of junction between the bones of the skull.
Czerny's suture
1. an intestinal suture in which the thread is passed through the mucous membrane only.
2. union of a ruptured tendon by splitting one of the ends and suturing the other end into the slit.
false suture a line of junction between apposed surfaces without fibrous union of the bones.
figure-of-eight suture one in which the threads follow the contours of the figure 8.
Gély's suture a continuous stitch for wounds of the intestine, made with a thread having a needle at each end.
glover's suture lock-stitch s.
Halsted suture a modification of the Lembert suture.
interrupted suture one in which each stitch is made with a separate piece of material.
Lembert suture an inverting suture used in gastrointestinal surgery.
lock-stitch suture a continuous hemostatic suture used in intestinal surgery, in which the needle is, after each stitch, passed through the loop of the preceding stitch.
loop suture interrupted s.
mattress suture a method in which the stitches are parallel with (horizontal mattress s.) or at right angles to (vertical mattress s.) the wound edges.
nonabsorbable suture suture material which is not absorbed in the body.
purse-string suture a continuous, circular inverting suture, such as is used to bury the stump of the appendix.
relaxation suture any suture so formed that it may be loosened to relieve tension as necessary.
subcuticular suture a method of skin closure involving placement of stitches in the subcuticular tissues parallel with the line of the wound.
uninterrupted suture continuous s.
glov·er's suture (gl v  rz)n. A continuous suture in which each stitch is passed through the loop of the preceding one. |
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