The material (synthetic or natural, resorbable or nonresorbable) used in closing a surgical or traumatic wound.
The act or process of uniting the tissues at a surgical or traumatic wound site using suture material.
The line of a junction or seam of union, commonly used of the line of opening of a carpel; dorsal suture (outer or anterior) thought to represent the midrib of the carpellary leaf; ventral suture (inner) thought to represent the united margins on which the ovules and placentas are borne; a completely dehiscent legume fruit has only one all-round suture, although the upper and lower margins are often referred to as the upper and lower suture.
A line of junction when parts are grown together.
A thread composed of catgut, silk, cotton, or other material used for sewing any two structures together in the course of a surgical procedure.
A fixed joint where two bones are fused together, especially the bones in the skull.
A procedure for attaching the sides of an incision or wound with thread, so that healing can take place.
A thread used for attaching the sides of a wound so that they can heal.
Natural seam border in the skull formed by the close joining of bony surfaces.
A surgical stitch to repair an incision, tear, or wound. Various materials are used for sutures, including silk, wire, and synthetic materials. Some sutures must be removed; others dissolve. Types of sutures include the chain stitch, which is a continuous stitch; an interrupted suture, which is a single suture tied separately; an apposition suture that holds the margins of an incision close together; and buried sutures, which draw together soft tissues beneath the outer layer of skin.
A type of immovable joint, found particularly in the skull, characterized by a minimal amount of connective tissue between the two bones. The cranial sutures include the coronal suture, between the frontal and parietal bones; the lambdoidal suture, between the parietal and occipital bones; and the sagittal suture, between the two parietal bones.
The line of union in an immovable articulation, as those between the skull bones; also such an articulation itself.
A particular kind of joint exclusively present among the bones of the skull. Initially mobile at birth, these neighboring bones later fuse together tightly and firmly through a layer of connective tissue, rendering any movement between them impossible.
The term “suture” is also employed to denote a surgical stitch.
In anatomy, a connection or seal between bones, like those in the skull.
To stitch up a wound.
Thin thread-like materials, like gut, silk, wire, or nylon, used to stitch a wound.
The technique of stitching using methods like interrupted sutures, mattress sutures, continuous sutures, purse-string sutures, or tension sutures.