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Stitches vs Suture - What's the difference?

stitches | suture |

As verbs the difference between stitches and suture

is that stitches is (stitch) while suture is .

As a noun stitches

is .

stitches

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (stitch)

    • suture

    English

    (wikipedia suture)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A seam formed by sewing two edges (especially of skin) together.
  • Thread used to sew two edges (especially of skin) together; stitch.
  • (geology) An area where separate terranes join together along a major fault.
  • (anatomy) A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.
  • (anatomy) A seam or line, such as that between the segments of a crustacean, between the whorls of a univalve shell, or where the elytra of a beetle meet.

    • Verb

    (sutur)
  • to sew up or join by means of a suture

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