thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together a seam used in surgery an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull) join with a suture; "suture the wound after surgery
a seam or impressed line indicating the division of the distinct parts of the body wall; the line of juncture of the elytra in Coleoptera or of the tegmina or hemelytra in other orders
The act of sewing; also, the line along which two things or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a seam, or that which resembles a seam
{i} surgical joining of two edges of a wound or incision; stitch used to close a wound; material used to surgically close a wound; junction of two bones in an immovable joint (Anatomy)