suture.

1. A stitch, or the joining of tissue with stitches, used to hold a wound or incision together.

2. A seam or line of junction between anatomical parts, especially the fibrous joins between skull bones.

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Words that belong together

• remove a suture
• a row of sutures

On the page

One suture had pulled free from the edge of the incision.

She counted the sutures before comparing the wound with the photograph.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular suture; plural sutures. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: sutures.