a strand or fibre used in the sewing together of parts of the living body
a stitch made with a suture
the act or process of sewing with sutures
the solid join between two bones, e.g. of the skull
a furrow at the junction of animal or plant parts; esp a line along which a fruit, etc will split to release the seed
sutural adj
[early French suture from Latin sutura seam, suture, from suere to sew]