<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Surgery: a joining of the lips or edges of a wound or the like by stitching or some similar process.</li><li>a particular method of doing this.</li><li>one of the stitches or fastenings employed.</li><li><strong>Anatomy</strong>: the line of junction of two bones, especially of the skull, in an immovable articulation; the articulation itself.</li><li><strong>Zoology, Botany</strong>: the junction or line of junction of contiguous parts, as the line of closure between the valves of a bivalve shell, a seam where carpels of a pericarp join, etc.</li><li>a seam as formed in sewing; a line of junction between two parts.</li><li>a sewing together or a joining as by sewing.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) sutured, suturing.<ul><li>to unite by or as by a suture.</li></ul></li></ul>