Stitch, Stitches, Stitching or Stitched may refer to:

Medical uses

*Stitch, a

surgical suture A surgical suture, also known as a stitch or stitches, is a medical device used to hold Tissue (biology), body tissues together and approximate wound edges after an injury or surgery. Application generally involves using a Sewing needle, needle w ...

, a medical device used to hold body tissues together after an injury or surgery **

Cervical cerclage Cervical cerclage, also known as a cervical stitch, is a treatment for cervical weakness, when the cervix starts to shorten and open too early during a pregnancy causing either a late miscarriage or preterm birth. In women with a prior spontaneou ...

, also known as a cervical stitch * Husband stitch, a purported historical surgical procedure *

Seton stitch A seton or seton stitch is a procedure used to aid the healing of fistulae (abnormal connections between two epithelium-lined organs or vessels). Techniques The procedure involves running a surgical-grade cord (eg, silk suture) through the fist ...

, a procedure used to aid the healing of fistulae * Side stitch, an intense stabbing pain during exercise *

Stitch method The Merck stitch method is a minimally invasive procedure for pinning protruding ears, developed by W. H. Merck.Merck, W.H. (2013). "Dr Merck’s stitch method. A closed minimally invasive procedure for correction of protruding ears (Die Fadenmet ...

, a minimally invasive procedure for pinning protruding ears

Textile arts

Stitch (textile arts) In the textile arts, a stitch is a single turn or loop of thread, or yarn. Stitches are the fundamental elements of sewing, knitting, embroidery, crochet, and needle lace-making, whether by hand or machine.Picken (1957), p. 322 A variety of s ...

, a single loop of thread or yarn ** List of knitting stitches **

List of sewing stitches This is a list of stitch (textile arts), stitches used in hand and sewing machine, machine sewing. The most common standard for stitches in the Clothing, apparel industry is ASTM International ASTM D6193-16(2020) The standard also covers variou ...

People

* Stitches (rapper), Phillip Nickolas Katsabanis (born 1995), American rapper * Jacob Duran, known as Stitch, a boxing cutman

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

* Stitch (''Lilo & Stitch''), the title alien from Disney's ''Lilo & Stitch'' franchise * Stitch, a fictional mutant in ''

Alpha Flight Alpha Flight is a fictional team of Canadian superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The characters premiered in ''The Uncanny X-Men'' #120 (April 1979), and were created to serve as part of the X-Men member Wolv ...

'' comics * Stitch (DC Comics), a fictional character from DC Comics * Stitch, a boy in the ''Horrible Histories'' (2001 TV series) * Stitch Rayburn, a character from ''The Young and the Restless'' * Vikhor "Stitch" Kuzmin, an antagonist and multiplayer character from '' Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War'' * Stitches, a playable character in the video game ''

Heroes of the Storm ''Heroes of the Storm'' is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. Announced at BlizzCon 2010, it was released on June 2, 2015 for macOS and Windows. The game features various crossover ...

'' * Stitches, a character in '' The Chica Show''

Films and television

* ''Lilo & Stitch'' (franchise), alternately named ''Disney Stitch'' or simply ''Stitch'', a Disney media franchise ** ''

Stitch! is a Japanese anime television series. It is a spin-off of Disney's ''Lilo & Stitch'' franchise, serving as the franchise's second television series after '' Lilo & Stitch: The Series''. The anime series aired in Japan from Octob ...

'', a Japanese anime spin-off ** ''

Stitch! The Movie ''Stitch! The Movie'' is a 2003 American direct-to-video animation, animated science fiction comedy film, comedy film produced by Disney Television Animation, Walt Disney Television Animation and Rough Draft Korea, released on August 26, 2003. ...

'', a 2003 American direct-to-video animated science fiction comedy film and pilot to ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series'' * ''Stitched'' (film), 2011 horror short film * ''Stitches'' (1985 film), comedy film * ''Stitches'' (2011 film), short film * ''Stitches'' (2012 film), horror film * ''Stitches'' (2019 film), Serbian film

Literature

* ''Stitches'' (book), a memoir by David Small, 2009 * '' Stitches: The Journal of Medical Humour'', a Canadian humour magazine

Music

* ''Stitch'', a 1995 album by

Klinik Klinik, (sometimes called The Klinik), is an industrial music band from Belgium, originally formed around 1982 by electro-synthpop practitioner Marc Verhaeghen, who is the only constant member. History Marc Verhaeghen originally formed Klinik ...

* ''Stitches'', a 2003 album by The Boggs * ''Stitches'' (album), a 2013 album by Califone * "Stitches" (Orgy song), 1999 * "Stitches" (Shawn Mendes song), 2015 *

The Stitches The Stitches is an American 1970s-style punk rock band formed in 1994 in Orange County, California, Orange County, California, United States. The Stitches record on independent labels such as Disaster, Gold Standard Laboratories, Vinyl Dog, Su ...

, an American punk rock band

Other uses

* The Stitch, a proposed engineering project in Atlanta, U.S. *

Stitch and glue Stitch and glue is a simple boat building method which uses plywood panels temporarily stitched together, typically with wire or zip-ties, and glued together permanently with epoxy resin. This type of construction can eliminate much of the need f ...

, a simple boat building method * Stitches (store), a Canadian retailer * Stitches, deep

laughter Laughter is a pleasant physical reaction and emotion consisting usually of rhythmical, usually audible contractions of the diaphragm and other parts of the respiratory system. It is a response to certain external or internal stimuli. Laug ...

Image stitching Image stitching or photo stitching is the process of combining multiple photographic images with overlapping fields of view to produce a segmented panorama or high-resolution image. Commonly performed through the use of computer software, most ap ...

, the process of combining multiple photographic images * Network stitching, a computing

orchestration Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble, such as a concert band) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra. Also called "instrumentation", orch ...

technique * Stitching, also known as

z-fighting Demonstration of z-fighting with multiple colors and textures over a grey background Z-fighting, also called stitching or planefighting, is a phenomenon in 3D rendering that occurs when two or more primitives have very similar distances to the ...

or planefighting, a computer graphics phenomenon