enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Prolene - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolene

    Composed of an isotactic crystalline stereoisomer of polypropylene, Prolene sutures are intended to be durable and long lasting. They are dyed blue, allowing for easy visibility against skin and when operating. It is composed of a single filament. A polypropylene mesh Prolene product is used for repairing hernias and other injuries to the fascia.

  3. Suture materials comparison chart - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suture_materials...

    A synthetic adsorbable suture material. Braided synthetic adsorbable multifilament made of polyglycolic acid and coated with N-laurin and L-lysine, which render the thread extremely smooth, soft and knot safe. A synthetic adsorbable suture material. Monofilament synthetic absorbable suture, prepared from the polyester, poly (p-dioxanone ...

  4. List of instruments used in ophthalmology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_instruments_used...

    to keep the eyes open during any operation; light wire instrument Needle holders: holding the needle in position while applying sutures •Silcock's needle holder-do-; has a catch and is used for heavier gauge needles; used mainly for skin, muscle and corneal incisions •Arruga's needle holder

  5. Surgical suture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgical_suture

    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 ...

  6. Intraocular muscles - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intraocular_muscles

    Intrinsic ocular muscles [1] or intraocular muscles [2] are muscles of the inside of the eye structure. The intraocular muscles are responsible for the protraction and retraction of the eyelids and reaction to light and pupil accommodation. [2] They're different to the extraocular muscles that are outside of the eye and control the external ...

  7. Anesthesia for eye surgery - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anesthesia_for_eye_surgery

    Here, 2% xylocaine is introduced into the muscle cone behind the eyeball. The injection is usually given through the inferior fornix of the skin of the outer part of the lower lid when the eye is in primary gaze. The ciliary nerves, ciliary ganglion, oculomotor nerve and abducens nerve are anesthetized in retrobulbar block. [2]

  8. Catgut suture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catgut_suture

    Surgical suture on needle holders. Catgut suture in a vintage glass dispenser. Catgut suture is a type of surgical suture made of twisted strands of purified collagen taken from the small intestine of domesticated ruminants or beef tendon. It is naturally degraded by the body's own proteolytic enzymes.

  9. Human eye - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_eye

    In order, along the optic axis, the optical components consist of a first lens (the cornea—the clear part of the eye) that accounts for most of the optical power of the eye and accomplishes most of the focusing of light from the outside world; then an aperture (the pupil) in a diaphragm (the iris—the coloured part of the eye) that controls ...