Suture

·noun The stitch by which the parts are united.

II. Suture ·noun The uniting of the parts of a wound by stitching.

III. Suture ·noun The line at which the elytra of a beetle meet and are sometimes confluent.

IV. Suture ·noun A line resembling a seam; as, the dorsal suture of a legume, which really corresponds to a midrib.

V. Suture ·noun A seam, or impressed line, as between the segments of a crustacean, or between the whorls of a univalve shell.

VI. Suture ·noun The line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins in any part of a plant; as, the ventral suture of a legume.

VII. Suture ·noun The act of sewing; also, the line along which two things or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a seam, or that which resembles a seam.

VIII. Suture ·noun The line of union, or seam, in an immovable articulation, like those between the bones of the skull; also, such an articulation itself; synarthrosis. ·see Harmonic suture, under Harmonic.