suture

A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound.

• Although the sutures are difficult to trace, the supraoccipital contacts the parietal anteriorly at a tight interdigitated suture, and contacts the ophistotic posterolaterally at a straight suture.

Thread used to sew or stitch two edges (especially of skin) together.

An area where separate terrane join together along a major fault.

A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.

A seam or line, such as that between the segments of a crustacean, between the whorls of a univalve shell, or where the elytra of a beetle meet.

The seam at the union of two margins in a plant.

• It is also generally marked above by flexuose anastomosing black, indented lines, whence it appears as if insculpt with rivulose sutures.

The procedure by which a subject comes to be identified with its own representation, as in the identification of the speaker with the sign “I” within a certain discourse; (by extension) any process by which the content of something is determined or supplied from outside itself.figuratively

• The suture of science and philosophy constitutes an identification of philosophical thought and scientific objectivity that is unfortunately typical of contemporary so-called ‘analytic’ philosophy. […] Yet, the over-identification of philos

To sew up or join by means of a suture.alsofigurativelytransitive