glover's suture

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glover's suture - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Glover \Glov"er\, n.
     One whose trade it is to make or sell gloves.
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     Glover's suture or Glover's stitch, a kind of stitch used
        in sewing up wounds, in which the thread is drawn
        alternately through each side from within outward.
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  Suture \Su"ture\, n. [L. sutura, fr. suere, sutum, to sew or
     stitch: cf. F. suture. See Sew to unite with thread.]
     1. The act of sewing; also, the line along which two things
        or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a
        seam, or that which resembles a seam.
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     2. (Surg.)
        (a) The uniting of the parts of a wound by stitching.
        (b) The stitch by which the parts are united.
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     3. (Anat.) The line of union, or seam, in an immovable
        articulation, like those between the bones of the skull;
        also, such an articulation itself; synarthrosis. See
        Harmonic suture, under Harmonic.
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     4. (Bot.)
        (a) The line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins
            in any part of a plant; as, the ventral suture of a
            legume.
        (b) A line resembling a seam; as, the dorsal suture of a
            legume, which really corresponds to a midrib.
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     5. (Zool.)
        (a) The line at which the elytra of a beetle meet and are
            sometimes confluent.
        (b) A seam, or impressed line, as between the segments of
            a crustacean, or between the whorls of a univalve
            shell.
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     Glover's suture, Harmonic suture, etc. See under
        Glover, Harmonic, etc.
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