suture
Example Sentences
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The team ruptured then sutured the Achilles tendon of lab rats.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024
During the embalming process, the body is cleaned and the mouth sutured closed.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2023
Polzin has since made over 100 similar works: He regards the awkward results, which he calls “reunificated furniture,” as a metaphor for his hastily sutured country.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
When this happens, doctors may recommend surgical treatments, such as a heart transplant or implantation of mechanical pumps that are sutured into the patient’s heart to help pump blood throughout the body.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2022
The first creature looked like the top half of a miniature giraffe sutured onto the bottom half of a donkey.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
