Translate suture | into Italian Definition of suture
noun
1a stitch or row of stitches holding together the edges of a wound or surgical incision. a thread or wire used for this. the action of stitching together the edges of a wound or incision.
2a seamlike 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 that have collided.
verb
[with object] stitch up (a wound or incision) with a suture:the small incision was sutured
