abdominal suture

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• Suture — The word suture has several uses in medicine, including: {{}}Cranial suture A type of joint between the bones of the skull where the bones are held tightly together by fibrous tissue. A surgical suture Thread like material used to sew tissue… …   Medical dictionary

• Surgical suture — For other uses, see Suture (disambiguation). Surgical suture on needle holder. Packaging shown above. Surgical suture is a medical device used to hold body tissues together after an injury or surgery. It generally consists of a needle with an… …   Wikipedia

• retention suture — a suture in which a large amount of tissue is included in each stitch, using strong material such as braided silk or stainless steel; this type is especially for reinforcing of abdominal wounds, relieving pressure on the primary suture line, and… …   Medical dictionary

• colposuspension — Suture fixation of the lateral vaginal fornix to Cooper ligament on each side, as a modification and enhancement of the standard Marshall Marchetti Kranz urethrovesical …   Medical dictionary

• fundoplication — Suture of the fundus of the stomach completely or partially around the gastroesophageal junction to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease; can be performed by open abdominal or thoracic …   Medical dictionary

• celiorrhaphy — Suture of a wound in the abdominal wall. SYN: laparorrhaphy. [celio + G. rhaphe, seam] …   Medical dictionary

• cholecystopexy — Suture of the gallbladder to the abdominal wall. [chole + G. kystis, bladder, + pexis, fixation] * * * cho·le·cys·to·pexy (ko″lə sisґto pek″se) [cholecysto + pexy] suspension or fixation of the gallbladder by surgical means …   Medical dictionary

• vaginofixation — Suture of a relaxed and prolapsed vagina to the abdominal wall. SYN: colpopexy, vaginapexy, vaginopexy. * * * vag·i·no·fix·a·tion (vaj″ĭ no fik saґshən) colpopexy …   Medical dictionary

• Insect morphology — Legend of body parts Tagmata : A Head, B Thorax, C Abdomen. 1. antenna 2. ocelli (lower) 3. ocelli (upper) 4. compound eye 5. brain (cerebral ganglia) 6. prothorax …   Wikipedia

• ICD-9-CM Volume 3 — is a system of procedural codes. It is a subset of ICD 9 CM (volumes 1 and 2 are used for diagnostic codes.) The United States National Center for Health Statistics drafted ICD 10 PCS in 2000 as a potential replacement for ICD 9 CM Volume 3, but… …   Wikipedia

• coleopteran — /koh lee op teuhr euhn, kol ee /, adj. 1. belonging or pertaining to the order Coleoptera. n. 2. a beetle. [1840 50; COLEOPTER(A) + AN] * * * ▪ insect Introduction   any member of the insect order Coleoptera, consisting of the beetles and weevils …   Universalium