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Suture

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means a stitch or set of stitches used to close a wound or surgical incision
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Stage 1 of 2
sutura
Latin · ancient
"a seam, a stitch"
a seam, a stitching, from suere (to sew)
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Stage 2 of 2
suture
English · 1580s
"a stitch used to close a wound"
settled as the medical word for stitches closing a wound
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