suture

• an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull)
• a seam used in surgery
• thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together
• join with a suture
• The act of sewing
• The uniting of the parts of a wound by stitching
• The stitch by which the parts are united
• The line of union, or seam, in an immovable articulation, like those between the bones of the skull
• The line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins in any part of a plant
• A line resembling a seam
• The line at which the elytra of a beetle meet and are sometimes confluent
• A seam, or impressed line, as between the segments of a crustacean, or between the whorls of a univalve shell
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Burundi in Rutana

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