sutureとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 suture, from Latin sūtūra (“suture”), from suere (“sew, join or tack together”) +‎ -tūra (forms action nouns).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈs(j)uː.tʃə/, /ˈs(j)uː.tjʊə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈsu.t͡ʃɚ/
• 韻: -uːtʃə(ɹ)

名詞

suture (plural sutures)

1. A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound.
   • 2016 February 6, “Cranial Anatomy and Palaeoneurology of the Archosaur Riojasuchus tenuisceps from the Los Colorados Formation, La Rioja, Argentina”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:

     Although the sutures are difficult to trace, the supraoccipital contacts the parietal anteriorly at a tight interdigitated suture, and contacts the ophistotic posterolaterally at a straight suture.

2. Thread used to sew or stitch two edges (especially of skin) together.
3. (geology) An area where separate terrane join together along a major fault.
4. (anatomy) A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.
5. (anatomy) A seam or line, such as that between the segments of a crustacean, between the whorls of a univalve shell, or where the elytra of a beetle meet.
6. (botany) The seam at the union of two margins in a plant.
   • 1894, James M. Crombie, A Monograph of Lichens Found in Britain, page 329:

     It is also generally marked above by flexuose anastomosing black, indented lines, whence it appears as if insculpt with rivulose sutures.

7. (philosophy, figurative) The procedure by which a subject comes to be identified with its own representation, as in the identification of the speaker with the sign “I” within a certain discourse; (by extension) any process by which the content of something is determined or supplied from outside itself.
   • 2011, Tzuchien Tho, “Introduction: One Divides into Two? Dividing the Conditions”, in Alain Badiou, The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic, →ISBN, page xix:

     The suture of science and philosophy constitutes an identification of philosophical thought and scientific objectivity that is unfortunately typical of contemporary so-called ‘analytic’ philosophy. […] Yet, the over-identification of philosophical tasks with science itself signifies a veritable retreat from philosophy itself.

派生語

動詞

suture (third-person singular simple present sutures, present participle suturing, simple past and past participle sutured)

1. (transitive, also figurative) To sew up or join by means of a suture.

参照

アナグラム

• uterus

発音

• IPA: /siu̯ˈtiu̯r(ə)/, /ˈsiu̯tiu̯r(ə)/

名詞

suture (plural suturez)

1. A suture; a seam made in surgical operations:
2. (rare, anatomy) A slight bodily indentation.

派生した語

• English: suture

参照

• “sūtūre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 November 2018.