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🧶 A crochet stitch 🩹 A wound suture
single stitch

single stitch

3.7
A single thread used to close a cut in the skin after injury or surgery
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : punto de sutura
  • The doctor placed a single stitch to close the cut.

Examples

  • The nurse told him to keep the single stitch clean and dry until the follow-up appointment.

  • After the accident, hospital staff removed the single stitch and inspected the healed wound.

  • During surgery, the doctor closed the incision with a single stitch to control bleeding.

  • I need a single stitch for this small wound.

  • During surgery, the doctor closed the incision with a single stitch to control bleeding.

  • The nurse told him to keep the single stitch clean and dry until the follow-up appointment.

  • After the accident, hospital staff removed the single stitch and inspected the healed wound.

Synonyms

suture
vssingle stitch
  • Specialized
42 5.1

A stitch or thread surgeons use to close a wound

refers to a single placed thread used to close a wound
stitch
vssingle stitch
23 2.3

A single loop of thread made when sewing or knitting

is used to close wounds surgically rather than for clothing or crafts

Surface Forms

single stitch singular
single stitches plural

Morphology

single + stitch

The phrase is transparently compositional: 'single' = one and 'stitch' = a sewn loop/suture, so 'single stitch' straightforwardly means one stitch used to close a wound. This adjective+noun pattern is literal and common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the intended medical sense.

Etymology

Single stitch comes from medical care where a needle is passed once through the skin to make one small stitch that holds a cut closed. So 'single' shows there is only one stitch used to close the wound.