a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
Origin: 1350–1400; Middle English < Medieval Latin sētōn- (stem of sētō), equivalent to sēt(a) seta + -ōn- noun suffix
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Setonis always a great word to know.
So is lollapalooza. Does it mean:
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Saint Elizabeth Ann (Bayley) (“Mother Seton”), 1774–1821, U.S. educator, social-welfare reformer, and religious leader: first native-born American to be canonized (1975).
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Ernest Thompson, 1860–1946, English writer and illustrator in the U.S.
seton se·ton (sēt'n) n. Material such as thread, wire, or gauze that is passed through subcutaneous tissues or through a cyst in order to form a sinus or fistula.