SUTURING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

-ing form of the verb suture