missuture

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ suture

Verb

missuture (third-person singular simple present missutures, present participle missuturing, simple past and past participle missutured)

1. To suture improperly.
   • 1960, Benjamin Keith Rank, Alan Ross Wakefield, Surgery of Repair as Applied to Hand Injuries, page 83:

     It is easy to missuture curved gaping wounds so that one side is sheared and buckled relative to the other.

   • 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 4:

     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.

   • 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 158:

     In 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.

   • 2020, Michael Drury, Clinical Negligence in General Practice:

     What 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.

Noun

missuture (plural missutures)

1. An instance of missuturing
   • 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 158:

     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].

   • 2017, Janna Houwen, Film and Video Intermediality, page 285:

     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.