Surgery .

a joining of the lips or edges of a wound or the like by stitching or some similar process.

a particular method of doing this.

one of the stitches or fastenings employed.

Anatomy .

the line of junction of two bones, esp. of the skull, in an immovable articulation.

the articulation itself.

Zoology, Botany . the junction or line of junction of contiguous parts, as the line of closure between the valves of a bivalve shell, a seam where carpels of a pericarp join, etc.

a seam as formed in sewing; a line of junction between two parts.

a sewing together or a joining as by sewing.

to unite by or as by a suture.

noun

joint , line , seam , sew , stitch