suture

Meanings

Noun

• A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound.
• Thread used to sew or stitch two edges (especially of skin) together.
• An area where separate terrane join together along a major fault.
• A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.
• A seam or line, such as that between the segments of a crustacean, between the whorls of a univalve shell, or where the elytra of a beetle meet.
• The seam at the union of two margins in a plant.

Verb

• To sew up or join by means of a suture.

Origin

• From Middle English suture, from Latin sūtūra ("suture").