suture

1. 1.

   an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull)

   Synonymssuturafibrous joint

   Broaderjoint

   Narrowercoronal suturefrontal sutureintermaxillary sutureinternasal suturelamboid sutureoccipitomastoid sutureparietomastoid suturesagittal suture
2. 2.

   a seam used in surgery

   Synonymssurgical seam

   Broaderseam
3. 3.

   thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together

   Broaderthread

1. 1.

   join with a suture

   “suture the wound after surgery”

   Broaderseam

Other forms of suture

plural

sutures·

past tense

sutured·

present participle

suturing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about suture

What does suture mean?

suture means "an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in suture?

suture has 2 syllables: su-ture. The stress falls on "su". In IPA it is /ˈsutʃɚ/.

What is another word for suture?

Close synonyms include sutura, fibrous joint, surgical seam. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is suture a common word?

suture is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.