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.
Report Abuse. The sic in square brackets is an editorial marker. It's a note to the reader or the proofreader, saying that whatever comes before it is exactly how it appears in the source material. The word sic in Latin means something like thus or so. So, the notation can be read as meaning it is thus or it is so.