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)
This is a marking stitch which some surgeons use to indicate to the pathologists which end of the specimen is oriented towards the head of the patient and which is toward their side Back
A suture is a stitch made to join together the open parts of a wound, especially one made after a patient has been operated on. a stitch that is used to sew a wound together (sutura, from suere )
the collision zone created by the plate-tectonic convergence of two (or more) continents A subduction zone usually includes some combination of geo-cline, island arc, and ocean-floor remnant (the remaining part that was not sub-ducted as the continents approached one another) The rocks and sediments caught up in the suturing event are highly folded, thrust-faulted, and (in the core of the resulting orogen) metamorphosed and selectively melted