Laceration vs Suture - What's the difference?
laceration | suture |
An irregular open wound caused by a blunt impact to soft tissue.
A seam formed by sewing two edges (especially of skin) together.
Thread used to sew two edges (especially of skin) together; stitch.
(geology) An area where separate terranes join together along a major fault.
(anatomy) A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.
(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.
to sew up or join by means of a suture
As a noun laceration
is laceration.As a verb suture is
.laceration
English
Noun
(en noun)- The doctor sewed up the laceration in his arm.
