Sutures
/ˈsuːtʃərz/noun
Plural of suture: a stitch used to close a wound or the line where two bones or tissues join.
Did you know?Suture comes from Latin sutura, “a seam or stitching,” from the verb suere, “to sew,” so the language of surgery is built on the language of tailoring.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*syu-
“to sew, bind together”
Latin
Latin
suere
“to sew”
Latin
Latin
sutura
“a seam, a stitching together”
Old French
Old French
suture
“a seam; a stitch in surgery”
Middle English
English
suture
“a surgical stitch or seam”
Modern English
English
suture
“a stitch or seam used to close a wound or join tissues”
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