noun / verb
suture
SOO-chur/ˈsuːtʃər/
A seam joining anatomical parts.
A jagged suture joins the two parietal bones of the skull.
Etymology
Latin sutura describes a seam or sewing together. That image covers both surgical stitches joining tissue and natural anatomical junctions where separate parts meet like the edges of a seam.
In context
lay them down perpendicularly across the tear and these act as sort of a butterfly suture like a doctor would use to hold and stabilize this
More examples
- The surgeon uses sutures to hold the wound edges together.
- The doctor sutures the cut after cleaning it.
- Several sutures mark the boundaries between bones in the skull.
Forms
suture · sutures · sutured · suturing