Stitch, Stitches or Stitched may refer to:

Medical uses

*Stitch, a

surgical suture A surgical suture, also known as a stitch or stitches, is a medical device used to hold body tissues together and approximate wound edges after an injury or surgery. Application generally involves using a needle with an attached length of threa ...

, a medical device used to hold body tissues together after an injury or surgery **

Cervical cerclage In anatomy, cervical is an adjective that has two meanings: # of or pertaining to any neck. # of or pertaining to the female cervix: i.e., the ''neck'' of the uterus. *Commonly used medical phrases involving the neck are **cervical collar **cerv ...

, also known as a cervical stitch *

Husband stitch The husband stitch or husband's stitch, also known as the daddy stitch, husband's knot and vaginal tuck, is a surgical procedure in which one or more additional sutures than necessary are used to repair a woman's perineum after it has been torn ...

, a purported historical surgical procedure *

Seton stitch A seton or seton stitch is a procedure used to aid the healing of fistulae (abnormal connections between two epithelium-lined organs or vessels). Techniques The procedure involves running a surgical-grade cord through the fistula tract so that t ...

, a procedure used to aid the healing of fistulae *

Side stitch A side stitch is an intense stabbing abdominal pain under the lower edge of the ribcage that occurs during exercise. It is also called a side ache, side cramp, muscle stitch, or simply stitch, and the medical term is exercise-related transient abdom ...

, an intense stabbing pain during exercise *

Stitch method The Merck stitch method is a minimally invasive procedure for pinning protruding ears, developed by Merck.Merck, W.H. (2013). "Dr Merck’s stitch method. A closed minimally invasive procedure for correction of protruding ears (Die Fadenmethode na ...

, a minimally invasive procedure for pinning protruding ears

Textile arts

Stitch (textile arts) In the textile arts, a stitch is a single turn or loop of thread, or yarn. Stitches are the fundamental elements of sewing, knitting, embroidery, crochet, and needle lace-making, whether by hand or machine.Picken (1957), p. 322 A variety of st ...

, a single loop of thread or yarn **

List of knitting stitches This is a list of knitting stitches. Common knitting abbreviations as used in patterns are shown in parentheses. Individual stitches * Knit stitch (k) * Purl stitch (p) Variations * Elongated stitch * Plaited stitch, also known as a t ...

List of sewing stitches This a list of stitches used in hand and machine sewing. Types of machine stitches *Lockstitch *Chain stitch *Zigzag stitch *Running stitch * Back stitch *Satin stitch *Overlock stitch Types of hand stitches * Back tack – backward stitch to a ...

People

* Stitches (rapper), Phillip Nickolas Katsabanis (born 1995), American rapper *

Jacob Duran Jacob "Stitch" Duran (born December 29, 1951) is a professional cutman who works in boxing and mixed martial arts fights.Manning, Fiona (2004)Jacob “Stitch” Duran: A Boxer’s Dream. ''www.eastsideboxing.com''. URL last accessed May 5, 2006. ...

, known as Stitch, a boxing cutman

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

* Stitch (''Lilo & Stitch''), the title alien from Disney's ''Lilo & Stitch'' franchise * Stitch, a fictional mutant in ''

Alpha Flight Alpha Flight is a fictional team of Canadian superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The characters premiered in ''The Uncanny X-Men'' #120 (April 1979), and were created to serve as part of the X-Men member Wo ...

'' comics * Stitch, a boy in the ''Horrible Histories'' (2001 TV series) * Stitch Rayburn, a character from ''The Young and the Restless'' * Vikhor "Stitch" Kuzmin, an antagonist and multiplayer character from '' Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War'' * Stitches, a playable character in the video game ''

Heroes of the Storm ''Heroes of the Storm'' is a crossover multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. It was released for Microsoft Windows and macOS on June 2, 2015. The game features various characters from Bli ...

'' * Stitches, a character in ''

The Chica Show ''The Chica Show'' is an American live-action/animated children's television series based on the puppetry segments of ''The Sunny Side Up Show'' on Sprout, which features the chicken puppet character Chica in full episodic and animated adventure ...

Films and television

* ''Lilo & Stitch'' (franchise), alternately named ''Stitch'', an American Disney media franchise ** ''

Stitch! is a Japanese anime television series. It is a spin-off of Disney's ''Lilo & Stitch'' franchise, serving as the franchise's second television series after '' Lilo & Stitch: The Series''. The anime series aired in Japan from October 2 ...

'', a Japanese anime spin-off ** ''

Stitch! The Movie ''Stitch! The Movie'' is a 2003 American animated science fiction comedy film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and Rough Draft Korea, released on August 26, 2003. It is the second film released in the ''Lilo & Stitch'' franchise and ...

'', a 2003 American direct-to-video animated science fiction comedy film and pilot to ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series'' * ''Stitched'' (film), 2011 horror short film * ''Stitches'' (1985 film), comedy film * ''Stitches'' (2011 film), short film * ''Stitches'' (2012 film), horror film * ''Stitches'' (2019 film), Serbian film

Literature

* ''Stitches'' (book), a memoir by David Small, 2009 * '' Stitches: The Journal of Medical Humour'', a Canadian humour magazine

Music

* ''Stitch'', a 1995 album by

Klinik Klinik, (sometimes called The Klinik), is an industrial music band from Belgium, originally formed around 1982 by electro-synthpop practitioner Marc Verhaeghen, who is the only constant member. History Marc Verhaeghen originally formed Klinik ...

* ''Stitches'', a 2003 album by

The Boggs The Boggs was an independent rock band from New York City formed by Jason Friedman in 2001. Original band members Friedman, Ezekiel Healy, Bradford Conroy and Phil Roebuck met as subway buskers in New York and became a part of the then burgeon ...

* ''Stitches'' (album), a 2013 album by Califone * "Stitches" (Orgy song), 1999 * "Stitches" (Shawn Mendes song), 2015 *

The Stitches The Stitches is an American 1970s-style punk rock band formed in 1993 in Orange County, California, United States. The Stitches record on independent labels such as Disaster, Gold Standard Laboratories, Vinyl Dog, Suburbia, TKO, and Kapow. ...

, an American punk rock band

Other uses

The Stitch In Downtown Atlanta, the Downtown Connector or 75/85 (pronounced "seventy-five eighty-five") is the Concurrency (road), concurrent section of Interstate 75 in Georgia, Interstate 75 and Interstate 85 in Georgia, Interstate 85 through the c ...

, a proposed engineering project in Atlanta, U.S. *

Stitch and glue Stitch and glue is a simple boat building method which uses plywood panels temporarily stitched together, typically with wire or zip-ties, and glued together permanently with epoxy resin. This type of construction can eliminate much of the need f ...

, a simple boat building method *

Stitches (store) Stitches is a Canadian retailer and a division of Young Manufacturer Inc. The first Stitches store was founded in Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 ...

, a Canadian retailer * Stitches, deep

laughter Laughter is a pleasant physical reaction and emotion consisting usually of rhythmical, often audible contractions of the diaphragm and other parts of the respiratory system. It is a response to certain external or internal stimuli. Laughter ...

Image stitching Image stitching or photo stitching is the process of combining multiple photographic images with overlapping fields of view to produce a segmented panorama or high-resolution image. Commonly performed through the use of computer software, most app ...

, the process of combining multiple photographic images * Network stitching, a computing

orchestration Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble, such as a concert band) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra. Also called "instrumentation", orc ...

technique