Meanings
present singular third person missutures · participle present missuturing · participle past missutured · past missutured
- To suture improperly.
It is easy to missuture curved gaping wounds so that one side is sheared and buckled relative to the other.
1960, Benjamin Keith Rank, Alan Ross Wakefield, Surgery of Repair as Applied to Hand Injuries, page 833 more examples
An inexpensive intraluminal shunt maintains coronary perfusion, prevents ischemia, reduces back bleeding, and maintains a bloodless field and molds the suture line to prevent accidental missuturing of the posterior coronary wall.
2008, Mustafa Tok, Halil I. Ucar, Omer F. Dogan, Bora Farsak, Ali C. Yorgancioglu, “Protective role of intracoronary shunt in off-pump coronary bypass operations”, in Saudi Medical Journal, volume 29, number 4In order to improve access to the most inferior part of the defect, we reestablished the cardiopulmonary bypass through superior vena cava and right femoral vein cannulation, removed the originally missutured patch and repatched the defect.
2015, Fushin Lin, Hong Tang, Xijun Xiao, “Surgical repair of inferior sinus venosus defects: a novel approach with unsnared inferior vena cava”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 10, page 158What the plaintiff has to prove is that it was as a result of breach of duty that no steps were taken to re-open the artery during the next 48 hours to deal with the missuturing and consequent obstruction.
2020, Michael Drury, Clinical Negligence in General Practice
plural missutures
- An instance of missuturing
A rare but serious complication is residual IVC- left atrial shunt due to missuture of atrial septal flap to the Eustachian valve which was mistaken as lower edge of the defect [7–9].
2015, Fushin Lin, Hong Tang, Xijun Xiao, “Surgical repair of inferior sinus venosus defects: a novel approach with unsnared inferior vena cava”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 10, page 1581 more example
What is more, like the missutures caused by the installational video dispositif, this second form of hindrance can again be understood as a videomatic intervention in a cinematic quality.
2017, Janna Houwen, Film and Video Intermediality, page 285
Origin
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