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  2. Surgical suture - Wikipedia

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    Advantages/disadvantages: Excellent tensile strength. However, poor handling and poor knot security due to high material memory. Common use: Excellent for superficial skin closure due to minimal tissue reactivity. [6] It is the most commonly used skin suture due to its excellent adaptability to potentially expanding tissues (edema). [9]

  3. Shape-memory polymer - Wikipedia

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    Examples of this development are vascular stents and surgical sutures. When used in surgical sutures, the shape-memory property of SMPs enables wound closure with self-adjusting optimal tension, which avoids tissue damage due to overtightened sutures and does support healing and regeneration. [35]

  4. Catgut suture - Wikipedia

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    ] The suture is sterilized with a sterilizing fluid containing ethylene oxide, isopropyl alcohol and distilled water. [3] Catgut suture is straw-colored, and is available in sizes USP 6-0 (1 metric) to USP 3 (7 metric). Although the name implies the usage of guts of cats, there is no record of feline guts being used for this purpose.

  5. Suture materials comparison chart - Wikipedia

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    They tend to absorb this suture at a higher rate. Special precautions should be taken in elderly patients and patients with history of anemia and malnutrition conditions. As with any suture material, adequate knot security requires the accepted surgical technique of flat and square ties. The PDS suture knots must be properly placed to be secure.

  6. Cheesewiring - Wikipedia

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    Cheesewiring can be a complication or part of a negative outcome of a procedure. Examples include tumor growth penetrating the openings in a bowel stent that was placed to open an obstructed bowel, [1] sutures used to hold a transplanted cornea in place, [2] and treatment of tendon rupture, when sutures pull through the tendon.

  7. Hundreds of cancer-causing chemicals are found in food ... - AOL

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    Researchers have identified nearly 200 chemicals used to make food packaging that could possibly increase the risk of breast cancer.. Found in plastics and paper, some of the potential mammary ...

  8. Talk:Surgical suture - Wikipedia

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    Chromic gut suture-make from the goat or cow;s intestine. These sutures are absorb within 7-14 days, it had the fast absortion rate compare to synthetic which will absorb within 42-56 depending on the range of product. As different range of product the absorbtion rate varies.

  9. The Dangerous Slow Cooker Mistake Experts Are Warning About - AOL

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    Turning your slow cooker on with the clamps firmly in place can be hazardous: Steam may build up and affect the way your food cooks or, in extreme cases, cause the lid or the crock to crack.