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I am not a stitching expert, but according to my research it seems like people stitch a wound differently from a split in clothes.

To stitch a split in clothes, we just need 1 long stitch and wind it around the split into a spiral shape.

Can we say "my T-shirt has a stitch in its sleeve"?

To stitch a wound, we may use many small stitches separately as the below picture.

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Suppose that we stitch a wound just like stitching a clothes split.

Is it correct to say "he has a stitch in his head"?

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Almost right, but each time the thread goes between the two pieces of fabric or skin that we wish to join, it's a stitch. We use the number of stitches as an indicator of the severity of the wound. To describe your photograph, you would say

He had to have 13 stitches in his head.

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  • is it a long stitch with 13 rounds or are they 13 separated stitches?
    – Tom
    Sep 29, 2020 at 8:13
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    'A stitch' refers to each time the needle passes in and out of the fabric. In sewing, we don't speak of 'one stitch with 13 rounds', but '13 stitches'.
    – Kate Bunting
    Sep 29, 2020 at 9:03
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When stitching 'suturing' a wound, the thread is usually carried through itself in a knot, each of these is one stitch.

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