suture

noun

• 1a stitch or row of stitches holding together the edges of a wound or surgical incision: sutures are removed on the 5th to 7th day after the operation
• a thread or wire used for suturing a wound or incision.
• [mass noun] the action of stitching together the edges of a wound or incision.

• 2a seam-like immovable junction between two bones, such as those of the skull.
• Zoology a junction between the sclerites of an insect’s body.
• Geology a line of junction formed by two crustal plates which have collided.

verb

• stitch up (a wound or incision) with a suture:the small incision was sutured