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the original undo button, holding humans together one stitch at a time.
means A surgical stitch (or the act of stitching) used to hold tissue or a wound together while it heals; also, in anatomy, the seam-like joint where bones meet, as in the skull.
from From Latin sutura, "a seam," from suere, "to sew" — the same thread of sense that runs through "sew" itself, a cousin via the ancient Indo-European root *syu-, "to bind, to stitch." The word arrived in English through medical and anatomical use, naming both the surgeon's stitch and the natural seams in the skull where the bones knit together like fabric.
- ancient art
- Egyptians stitched wounds over 5000 years ago
- skull seams
- your skull bones are joined by sutures too
- self-erasing
- dissolvable stitches vanish without removal
- surgeon's knot
- the throw that refuses to slip loose
- silk roots
- early sutures used actual silk and catgut
barbed suture — surgical thread with tiny barbs that anchors without knots, fda approved 1998
kraissl's lines — natural skin tension lines surgeons follow in face closure to minimize scarring