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2. 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. Full tensile strength is extended to 18–21 days. It is brown rather than straw-colored, and has improved smoothness due to the dry presentation of ...

3. Suture materials comparison chart - Wikipedia

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   The following table compares some of the most common adsorbable sutures. Plain catgut. Chromic catgut. Polyglycolide. (P.G.A.) Polydioxanone (PDS) Description. Adsorbable biological suture material. Plain is an adsorbable suture made by twisting together strands of purified collagen taken from bovine intestines.

4. Surgical suture - Wikipedia

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   shown above. [edit on Wikidata] 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 ...

5. Wound healing - Wikipedia

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   Wound healing refers to a living organism's replacement of destroyed or damaged tissue by newly produced tissue. [1] In undamaged skin, the epidermis (surface, epithelial layer) and dermis (deeper, connective layer) form a protective barrier against the external environment. When the barrier is broken, a regulated sequence of biochemical events ...

6. Veterinary surgery - Wikipedia

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   Preparing a cow for udder surgery in field conditions: the physical restraint with a set of ropes is necessary next to xylazine tranquilisation A cat spay. Veterinary surgery is surgery performed on non-human animals by veterinarians, whereby the procedures fall into three broad categories: orthopaedics (bones, joints, muscles), soft tissue surgery (skin, body cavities, cardiovascular system ...

7. I Loved My Dog. Then He Tried to Kill Me. - AOL

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   TEN MINUTES BEFORE my dog tried to kill me, we went on a peaceful walk. Rollie, a nine-year-old, 80-pound pit-bull mix with coconut-white fur and a ginger spot on his left eye, strolled calmly by ...

8. Vicryl - Wikipedia

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   Vicryl (polyglactin 910) is an absorbable, synthetic, usually braided suture, manufactured by Ethicon Inc., a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson. A monofilament version is also made for use in ophthalmic practice. It is indicated for soft tissue approximation and ligation. The suture holds its tensile strength for approximately two to three ...

9. This postal worker needed 16 stitches after a dog attack. In ...

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   WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: Postal worker Tara Snyder needed 16 stitches after a dog attacked her when she tried to deliver mail in Pennsylvania, the state with the fourth most dog attacks on postal ...