SUTURING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suturing mean? 

• SUTURING (noun)
  The noun SUTURING has 1 sense:

1. surgical joining of two surfaces

  Familiarity information: SUTURING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUTURING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Surgical joining of two surfaces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("suturing" is a kind of...):

sewing; stitching (joining or attaching by stitches)

Holonyms ("suturing" is a part of...):

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

Derivation:

suture (join with a suture)

 Context examples 

Encouraged by these results, the researchers again increased mTOR activity but then forced mice to use the treated eye during visual stimulation by suturing shut the good eye.

(Visual activity regenerates neural connections between eye and brain, NIH)