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tiny knots that hold flesh and fabric together while everyone pretends not to faint
means Small loops or knots made with thread — by a needle in cloth, or by a surgeon closing a wound — used to bind two edges together until they hold on their own.
from From Old English 'stice,' meaning a prick, puncture, or sharp stab — the same word that gives us the sudden pain of a 'stitch' in your side after running. It traces back to a Proto-Germanic root tied to piercing and sticking, a cousin of 'stick' and 'stitch' alike. The thread came later: first the jab of the needle, then the loop it leaves behind. So every stitch still carries the memory of a tiny wound, neatly sewn shut.
- ancient art
- Egyptians used linen and ant jaws as clamps
- dissolving kind
- absorbable sutures vanish as your body digests them
- laughter risk
- too much giggling can literally split fresh ones
- surgeon speed
- some hands tie over fifty knots per minute
- oldest stitch
- 7000-year-old healed wounds show suture marks
shawn mendes song — 2015 hit single that reached #1 on billboard hot 100
sonic the hedgehog character — orange cat introduced in sonic adventure 2, 2001
lilo and stitch alien — experiment 626 in disney's 2002 film, officially named stitch