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.
Sic in square brackets is an editing term used with quotations or excerpts. It means âthatâs really how it appears in the original.â. It is used to point out a grammatical error, misspelling, misstatement of fact, or, as above, the unconventional spelling of a name.iven the context that [sic] appears in writing; and that, it is usually made implicit that the writer is quoting someone directly, it serves the purpose of informing the reader that the writer is not imbecile (which it does regardless of .).