A Suture
Etymology From Latin sūtūra (a seam), from suere (to sew), from Proto-Indo-European: *syuh₁- to sew().
- (medicine) A seam formed by sewing up a wound.
- (medicine) The thread or wire used to sew up a wound.
- (anatomy) A type of fibrous joint that connects the bones of the skull.
- (botany) A seam or line, such as the line of dehiscence on a fruit or the line of junction of two carpels.
- (zoology) The line of junction of two parts of an animal body, such as the whorls of a mollusk shell.