1.  suture(n = noun.body) fibrous joint, sutura - an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull);
is a kind of articulatio, articulation, joint
has particulars: coronal suture, sutura coronalis, frontal suture, sutura frontalis, intermaxillary suture, sutura intermaxillaris, internasal suture, sutura internasalis, lamboid suture, sutura lamboidea, occipitomastoid suture, parietomastoid suture, interparietal suture, sagittal suture, sutura sagittalis

2.  suture(n = noun.artifact) surgical seam - a seam used in surgery;
is a kind of seam
Derived form verb suture₁

3.  suture(n = noun.artifact) - thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together;
is a kind of thread, yarn
Derived form verb suture₁

   suture(v = verb.contact) - join with a suture; "suture the wound after surgery"
is one way to seam
Derived forms noun suture₃, noun suture₂, noun suturing₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

1.  The act of sewing; also, the line along which two things or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a seam, or that which resembles a seam. [1913 Webster]

2.  The uniting of the parts of a wound by stitching. [1913 Webster]

3.  The line of union, or seam, in an immovable articulation, like those between the bones of the skull; also, such an articulation itself; synarthrosis. See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic. [1913 Webster]

4.  The line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins in any part of a plant; as, the ventral suture of a legume. [1913 Webster]

5.  The line at which the elytra of a beetle meet and are sometimes confluent. [1913 Webster]

suture, 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.

Derivative:
sutural adj. sutured adj.

Etymology:
F suture or L sutura f. suere sut- sew

N  junction, joining, joinder, union connection, conjunction, conjugation, annexion, annexation, annexment, astriction, attachment, compagination, vincture, ligation, alligation, accouplement, marriage infibulation, inosculation, symphysis, anastomosis, confluence, communication, concatenation, meeting, reunion, assemblage, coition, copulation, sex, sexual congress, sexual conjunction, sexual intercourse, love-making, joint, joining, juncture, pivot, hinge, articulation, commissure, seam, gore, gusset, suture, stitch, link, miter mortise, closeness, tightness coherence, combination, annexationist, joined, joint, conjoint, conjunct, corporate, compact, hand in hand, firm, fast, close, tight, taut, taught, secure, set, intervolved, inseparable, indissoluble, insecable, severable, jointly, in conjunction with, fast, firmly intimately, tria juncta in uno.

coronal suture, frontal suture, intermaxillary suture, internasal suture, interparietal suture, lamboid suture, occipitomastoid suture, parietomastoid suture, sagittal suture