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Suture

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Suture, literally meaning "seam", may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Suture (album), a 2000 album by American Industrial rock band Chemlab
  • Suture (film), a 1993 film directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel

Healthcare

  • Suture (anatomy), a rigid joint between hard parts of animals
    • Suture (joint), concerning the major joints in the bones of the cranium
    • Ammonitic suture, the intersection of the septum with the outer shell in Ammonites
    • Facial suture (trilobite), divisions in the cephalon (head) of most trilobites, along which the exoskeleton splits during molting
  • Surgical suture, a stitch used by doctors and surgeons to hold tissue together

Science

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