Suture, literally meaning "seam", may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Suture'' (album), a 2000 album by American Industrial rock band Chemlab * ''Suture'' (film), a 1993 film directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel *

Suture (band) Suture was an American punk rock and indie rock trio based in Washington, D.C. affiliated with early riot grrrl. Suture consisted of Kathleen Hanna (electric bass guitar, drums, vocals), Sharon Cheslow (electric guitar, electric bass guitar, vocal ...

, an early 1990s band with Kathleen Hanna, Sharon Cheslow, and Doug Birdzell

Healthcare

Suture (anatomy) In anatomy, a suture is a fairly rigid joint between two or more hard elements of an organism, with or without significant overlap of the elements. Sutures are found in the skeletons or exoskeletons of a wide range of animals, in both invertebra ...

, a rigid joint between hard parts of animals **

Suture (joint) In anatomy, fibrous joints are joints connected by fibrous tissue, consisting mainly of collagen. These are fixed joints where bones are united by a layer of white fibrous tissue of varying thickness. In the skull the joints between the bones ar ...

, concerning the major joints in the bones of the cranium **

Ammonitic suture Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusc animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda. These molluscs, commonly referred to as ammonites, are more closely related to living coleoids (i.e., octopuses, squid and cuttlefish) ...

, the intersection of the septum with the outer shell in Ammonites **

Facial suture (trilobite) Trilobites (; meaning "three lobes") are extinct marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita. Trilobites form one of the earliest-known groups of arthropods. The first appearance of trilobites in the fossil record defines the base of the At ...

, divisions in the cephalon (head) of most trilobites, along which the exoskeleton splits during molting *

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 stitch used by doctors and surgeons to hold tissue together

Science

Suture (geology) In structural geology, a suture is a joining together along a major fault zone, of separate terranes, tectonic units that have different plate tectonic, metamorphic and paleogeographic histories. The suture is often represented on the surface by ...

, a major fault through an

orogen An orogenic belt, or orogen, is a zone of Earth's crust affected by orogeny. An orogenic belt develops when a continental plate crumples and is Tectonic uplift, uplifted to form one or more mountain ranges; this involves a series of geological pr ...

or mountain range * Suture, a seam in a fruit capsule {{disambig