surgical seam

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   a seam used in surgery

   Synonymssuture

   Broaderseam

Questions about surgical seam

What does surgical seam mean?

surgical seam means "a seam used in surgery".

What is another word for surgical seam?

Close synonyms include suture. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is surgical seam a common word?

surgical seam is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.