suture. ( 1 in surgery) a thread or wire used to join together a wound. ( 2 in surgery) the seam found after stitching two parts together. 3  an immovable joint between the bones of the skull. ( in plants) the line of fusion between two carpels.
For other uses, see ( ) (disambiguation). A bracket is a tall punctuation mark typically used in matched pairs within text, to set apart or interject other text. The matched pair may be described as opening and closing, or left and right symbols.
Round brackets can also be used to show that something could be singular or plural, e.g., Remove the pin(s) from the leg. When round brackets are used to insert information at the end of a sentence, the end punctuation of the sentence is placed outside the bracket. All the crew survived (even the dog).