Suture Definition

Suture Sentence Examples

• Mantle has a posterior suture.

• Independent evolution of parts is well shown among invertebrates, where the shell of an ammonite, for example, may change markedly in form without a corresponding change in suture, or vice versa.

• The pressure a growing brain exerts on a fused suture also can cause a delay in development or, rarely, permanent brain damage.

• Jimenez, David, et al. "Endoscopy-assisted wide-vertex craniectomy, barrel stave osteotomies, and postoperative helmet molding therapy in the management of sagittal suture craniosynostosis."

• The vertebrae are stereospondylous, the centrum or body and the arch being com pletely fused into one mass, leaving not even a neuro-central suture.