suture

v. close a wound or incision using sutures (Medicine)

n. surgical joining of two edges of a wound or incision; stitch used to close a wound; material used to surgically close a wound; junction of two bones in an immovable joint (Anatomy)

Sutures are the stitches that doctors, and especially surgeons, use to hold skin, internal organs, blood vessels and all other tissues of the human body together, after they have been severed by injury or surgery. They must be strong (so they do not break), non-toxic and hypoallergenic (to avoid adverse reactions in the body), and flexible (so they can be tied and knotted easily). In addition, they must lack the so called "wick effect", which means that sutures must not allow fluids to penetrate the body through them from outside, which could easily cause infections. Sutures can be very painful.
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Suture /su·ture/ 1. sutura. 2. a stitch or series of stitches made to secure apposition of the edges of a surgical or traumatic wound. 3. [more]Suture - Community and Resources

Noun
1. an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull)
(synonym) sutura, fibrous joint
(hypernym) joint, articulation, articulatio
(hyponym) coronal suture, sutura coronalis
2. a seam used in surgery
(synonym) surgical seam
(hypernym) seam
3. thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together
(hypernym) thread, yarn
(substance-meronym) catgut, gut
Verb
1. join with a suture; "suture the wound after surgery"
(hypernym) seam

n. suture, surgical joining of two edges of a wound or incision; stitch used to close a wound; material used to surgically close a wound; junction of two bones in an immovable joint (Anatomy)

v. suture, stitch, sew