braided suture

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• 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

• Barbed suture — Surgical sutures are one of the most commonly used devices for wound closure and tissue approximation. In the US, approximately 50 million open surgical procedures a year are performed requiring the use of sutures. Although effective at wound… …   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

• nonabsorbable surgical suture — [USP] a strand of material resistant to the action of living mammalian tissue, available in various diameters and tensile strengths. There are three types: Class I is composed of monofilament, twisted, or braided silk or synthetic fibers; if… …   Medical dictionary

• Vicryl — (polyglactin 910) is an absorbable, synthetic, braided suture. It is indicated for soft tissue approximation and ligation, and holds its tensile strength for approximately three to four weeks in tissue. Vicryl may also be treated for more rapid… …   Wikipedia

• Monocryl — is a synthetic, absorbable suture, manufactured and trademarked by Ethicon. It is composed of poliglecaprone 25, which is a copolymer of glycolide and epsilon caprolactone.[1] It comes both dyed (violet) and undyed (clear), and is a monofilament… …   Wikipedia

• Henry Milward & Sons — (now known as ENTACO) is a British manufacturer of sewing needles.[1]. Entaco as featured on the One Show on BBC One are the suppliers of John James Needles but with the majority being imported from China to their specifications and not in… …   Wikipedia

• Geology of the Himalaya — [ Fig 1: The earth in the Early Permian. At that time, India is part of Gondwana and bordered to the north by the Cimmerian Superterrane. Paleogeographic reconstructions. By Dèzes (1999), based on Stampfli and Borel (2002) and Patriat and Achache …   Wikipedia

• Otoplasty — Otoplasty: the pre operative front aspect (left), and the post operative front aspect (right) of an infantile otopexy (ear pinback) correction to a girl. Otoplasty (Greek ōtoûs, ear + plassein, to shape) denotes the surgical and non surgical… …   Wikipedia

• silk — The fibers or filaments obtained from the cocoon of the silkworm. floss s. SYN: dental floss. surgical s. thread prepared from the cocoon filaments of glutinous gum that are spun by the mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori; can be obtained in various… …   Medical dictionary

• Triassic Period — Interval of geologic time, с 248–206 million years ago, that marks the beginning of the Mesozoic Era. Many new vertebrates emerged during the Triassic, heralding the major changes that were to occur in both terrestrial and marine life forms… …   Universalium