Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Seton

Seton , noun

[French séton (compare Italian setone), from Latin seta a thick, stiff hair, a bristle.]

(Medicine & Farriery) A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen or the like, introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to form an issue; also, the issue so formed.