Apposition suture


apposition suture

apposition suture n.
A superficial suture of the skin only. Also called coaptation suture.

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    the act of placing together or bringing into proximity; juxtaposition. the addition or application of one thing to another thing. Grammar. a syntactic relation between expressions, usually consecutive, that have the same function and the same relation to other elements in the sentence, the second expression identifying or supplementing the first. In Washington, our first […]

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    a word or phrase in . placed in . (of an adjective or adjectival phrase) directly following the noun it modifies. Historical Examples An appositive is in the same case as the substantive which it limits (p. 42). An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises George Lyman Kittredge An appositive is in the same case as […]

  • Appr.

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