sutur-, sutu- +

By means of, or in the manner of, a suture or sutures.

To join with a suture.

The application or sewing of sutures; stitching.

1. Thread-like material used to sew tissue together.
2. To stitch a wound closed.
3. A type of joint between the bones of the skull where the bones are held tightly together by fibrous tissue.
4. The junction of two bones forming an immovable articulation; the line of such a junction; especially, any of the serrated articulations of the skull.
5. The joining of the lips of a wound, or of the ends of a severed nerve or tendon, by stitches; also, an instance of this; a stitch used for this purpose.
6. Sewing, stitching; also, a stitch or seam; adhesion; a union; now chiefly the union of the parts or sections of a literary composition, or a point at which it is made.
7. In plate tectonics, the junction or line of junction formed by the collision of two lithospheric plates.

The word "suture" came with little change from the Latin sutura, "a sewn seam". In Latin, the verb suere is "to sew, stitch", or "tack together".

The surgical removal of a cranial suture.

Sewn together.

1. The surgical joining of two surfaces.
2. Joining by means of sutures or a suture.
3. Stitching flesh together.

The suture between the frontal and facial bones.

A suture in which pins are passed through the opposite lips of a wound and material is wound around the pins, crossing them first at one end and then at the other in a figure-of-eight fashion; therefore, holding the lips of the wound firmly together.