n. & v.
--n.
1. Surgery a the joining of the edges of a wound or incision by stitching. b the thread or wire used for this.
2 the seamlike junction of two bones, esp. in the skull.
3 Bot. & Zool. a similar junction of parts.
--v.tr. Surgery stitch up (a wound or incision) with a suture.
Derivatives:
sutural adj. sutured adj.
Etymology: F suture or L sutura f. suere sut- sew