The portion of the Sonora Desert which lies in the Southwestern United States is the most populated area within the region. Six of the top ten major population centers of the region are found within its borders: Phoenix, Tucson, Mesa, Chandler, Glendale, and Scottsdale, all in Arizona.
Insertion. Insertion. 1. (Science: anatomy) The place of attachment, as of a muscle to the bone which it moves. 2. (Science: genetics) a rare nonreciprocal translocation involving three breaks in which a segment is removed from one chromosome and then inserted into a broken region of a nonhomologous chromosome.
Medical Definition of suture. 1  1a: a stitch made with a sutureb: a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living bodyc: the act or process of sewing with sutures. 2  2a: the line of union in an immovable articulation (as between the bones of the skull); also : such an articulationb: a furrow at the junction of adjacent bodily parts.