1. suture -- (join with a suture; "suture the wound after surgery")
suture can be used as a noun
1. suture, sutura, fibrous joint -- (an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull))
2. suture, surgical seam -- (a seam used in surgery)
3. suture -- (thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together)
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What I had taken for masonry seemed now to be iron, or some other metal, in huge plates, whose sutures or joints occasioned the depression. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe