suture (en)

(noun) a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body / (noun) a stitch made with a suture / (noun) the act or process of sewing with sutures / (noun) a uniting of parts / (noun) the seam or seamlike line along which two things or parts are sewed or united / (noun) the line of union in an immovable articulation (as between the bones of the skull) / (noun) such an articulation / (noun) a furrow at the junction of adjacent bodily parts / (noun) a line of dehiscence (as on a fruit) / (verb) to unite, close, or secure with sutures / (noun) a suture extending across the skull between the parietal and frontal bones

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