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  2. Simple interrupted stitch - Wikipedia

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    The simple interrupted stitch is a suturing technique used to close wounds. It is the most commonly used technique in the closure of skin. [1] It is known as an interrupted stitch because the individual stitches aren't connected; they are separate. Placing and tying each stitch individually is time-consuming, but this technique keeps the wound ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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

  5. Behavioral neuroscience - Wikipedia

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    The term "psychobiology" has been used in a variety of contexts, emphasizing the importance of biology, which is the discipline that studies organic, neural and cellular modifications in behavior, plasticity in neuroscience, and biological diseases in all aspects, in addition, biology focuses and analyzes behavior and all the subjects it is ...

  6. Suture (anatomy) - Wikipedia

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    In anatomy, a suture is a fairly rigid joint between two or more hard elements of an organism, with or without significant overlap of the elements. [ 1 ] Sutures are found in the skeletons or exoskeletons of a wide range of animals, in both invertebrates and vertebrates .

  7. Interruption science - Wikipedia

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    Interruption science is a branch of human factors psychology and emerged from human–computer interaction and cognitive psychology. Being ubiquitous in life and an intuitive concept, there are few formal definitions of interruption.

  8. Fixed action pattern - Wikipedia

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    Another example of a behavior that has been described as a fixed action pattern is the egg-retrieval behavior of the greylag goose, reported in classic studies by Niko Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz. [5] Like many ground-nesting birds, if an egg becomes displaced from the nest, the greylag rolls it back to the nest with its beak.

  9. Horizontal mattress stitch - Wikipedia

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    The horizontal mattress stitch is a suture technique used to close wounds.It everts skin well and spreads tension along the wound edge. [1] [2] [3] This makes it ideal for holding together fragile skin [4] as well as skin under high tension such as the distant edges of a large laceration or as the initial holding suture in complicated repairs.