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  2. Surgical suture - Wikipedia

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    A surgical suture, also known as a stitch or stitches, is a medical device used to hold body tissues together and approximate wound edges after an injury or surgery. Application generally involves using a needle with an attached length of thread. There are numerous types of suture which differ by needle shape and size as well as thread material ...

  3. Surgical staple - Wikipedia

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    The skin staple remover is a small manual device which consists of a shoe or plate that is sufficiently narrow and thin to insert under the skin staple. The active part is a small blade that, when hand-pressure is exerted, pushes the staple down through a slot in the shoe, deforming the staple into an 'M' shape to facilitate its removal.

  4. Vertical mattress stitch - Wikipedia

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    The middle stitch is a vertical mattress the others simple interrupted stitches. The vertical mattress stitch, often called vertical Donati stitch (named after the Italian surgeon Mario Donati), [1] is a suture type used to close skin wounds. The advantages of the vertical mattress suture are that it provides closure for both deep and ...

  5. Catgut suture - Wikipedia

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    Catgut Chrome (B Braun) suture is a variant treated with chromic acid salts. This treatment produces roughly twice the stitch-holding time of plain catgut, but greater tissue inflammation occurs.

  6. Wound closure strip - Wikipedia

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    Like wound closure strips, butterfly closures do not require a medical professional to apply and can result in improved cosmetic outcomes for small wounds, compared to surgical sutures. Waterproof closure strips: Steri-Strips are paper-based, so durability and usage can be compromised if they get wet, requiring dryness and precision.

  7. Dupuytren's contracture - Wikipedia

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    Manual work: [24] [29] a 2023 paper by researchers at the University of Groningen Medical Centre and Oxford University, "Dupuytren's disease is a work-related disorder: results of a population-based cohort study", found that people whose jobs involved significant manual work were 1.29 times more likely to develop Dupuytren's disease than others ...

  8. 'Don't even look': Shark bites both of surfer's feet, leading ...

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    Cole Taschman and his friends were on the water Oct. 25 at Bathtub Beach when he felt 'the sharpest knife you can imagine' attack his feet. 'Don't even look': Shark bites both of surfer's feet ...

  9. History of wound care - Wikipedia

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    A seminal work of traditional Chinese medicine was the Huangdi neijing (Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon) compiled between the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC (i.e. originating in the Warring States period), which viewed the human body, its organs and tissues through the lens of the metaphysical five phases and yin and yang, and stated a belief in two ...