gusset vs suture

gusset

verb
  • To make with a gusset; to sew a gusset into. 

noun
  • A large flat metal piece wider than the valley to help prevent build-up at the base of the valley, either from debris or ice dam formations. 

  • A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; especially, the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler. 

  • A gousset, a piece of mail providing protection where armor plates meet. 

  • A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement cf. godet. 

  • An abatement or mark of dishonor in a coat of arms, resembling a gusset. 

suture

verb
  • To sew up or join by means of a suture. 

noun
  • Thread used to sew or stitch two edges (especially of skin) together. 

  • An area where separate terrane join together along a major fault. 

  • A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull. 

  • A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound. 

  • 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. 

  • The seam at the union of two margins in a plant. 

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