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Define Suture Meaning

Suture
The process of joining two surfaces or edges together along a line by or as if by sewing.
The material, such as thread, gut, or wire, that is used in this procedure.
The line or stitch so formed.

a stitch made with a suture,
a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body, the act or process of sewing with sutures.
By Daria
In Sutures
"In Sutures" Humor that is so convulsively, side-splittingly hilarious, that you crack up and fall apart from laughing so hard, and metaphorically speaking, you require remedial surgery.

The hyperbole of being "in stitches".

Jen: That stand up gig was an absolute crack-up.

Ange: Yeh...I'm in sutures 'cos I split my sides from laughing so much.
By Britney
Suture Self
a term for removing one’s own stitches / also applies to stitching one’s own wounds, a less common occurrence than the removal of one's own sutures that were sown in by a healthcare professional

With no universal healthcare, you get a lot of suture self procedures taking place.
By Dyanna
Karma Suture
1. Attempting to stitch up one's torn Karma, before it gets worse.

2. Making a repair to a damaged Karma.

I have been so bad lately, I need a Karma Suture.
By Joscelin
Suture Self
What a doctor shruggingly remarks when someone requests a different-from-the-standard-practice procedure for stitching up a wound, and said physician cannot see what difference said alternative method would make, but wants to accommodate the patient whenever possible.

"Suture self," said the surgeon, when I asked him to use cotton sewing-thread instead of synthetic-fiber floss.
By Helen-Elizabeth