Suture
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Suture, literally meaning "seam", may refer to:
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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
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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
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Science
- Suture (geology), a major fault through an orogen or mountain range
- Suture, a seam in a fruit capsule
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See also
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