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.
I had someone edit a post of mine to 'correct' my naming of the symbols from brackets to parentheses. In British English brackets is the usual term. This got me wondering: Is US-English ...