sutur-, sutu-

(Latin: sew, stitch)

A stitch is a single complete movement of a threaded needle in sewing or surgical knots for joining a patient's skin together after an operation.

suturally (adverb), more suturally, most suturally
Pertaining to a strand or fiber that is used to sew parts of the living body after a medical operation.
suturate (verb), suturates; suturated; suturating
To join with a suture.
suturation (s) (noun), suturations (pl)
The application or sewing of sutures; stitching.
suture (s) (noun), sutures (pl)
1. Thread-like material used to sew body tissues together.
2. A stitch that closes a wound.
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.
6. Etymology: from Latin sutura, "a sewn seam". In Latin, the verb suere is "to sew, stitch", or "tack together".
suturectomy (s) (noun), suturectomies (pl)
The surgical removal of a cranial suture.
sutured
Sewn together.
suturing
1. The surgical joining of two surfaces.
2. Joining by means of sutures or a suture.
3. Stitching flesh together.
transverse suture
The suture between the frontal and facial bones.
twisted suture
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.