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  2. List of stationery topics - Wikipedia

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    Paper clip; Paper cutter; Paper Mate; Paper size; Pee Chee folder; Pen; Pencil; Pencil Case; Post-it note; A Bavarian postal card from 1895 with an imprinted stamp Some Royal Mail rubber bands, on top of letter size guide. Postal stationery

  3. Surgical staple - Wikipedia

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    It is possible that this is the result of recent advances in suture technology, along with increasingly risk-conscious surgical practice. Certainly modern synthetic sutures are more predictable and less prone to infection than catgut , silk and linen , which were the main suture materials used up to the 1990s.

  4. Teaching kit (museum) - Wikipedia

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    A teaching kit is a teaching resource developed by a museum education department with to create cross-curricular learning. Such kits often include many resources, such as an educators' guide, a CD-ROM with works of art and primary sources (letters, maps, period photographs), overhead transparencies, posters, curricula, and step-by-step lesson plans.

  5. Ligature (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    With a blood vessel the surgeon will clamp the vessel perpendicular to the axis of the artery or vein with a hemostat, then secure it by ligating it; i.e. using a piece of suture around it before dividing the structure and releasing the hemostat.

  6. Surgical knot - Wikipedia

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    At the end of the running suture line, clips can be placed across the suture tail. Barbed suture is a knotless surgical suture that has a pattern of barbs on its surface. These barbs lock the suture into the tissue, eliminating the tying of knots. Barbed sutures are typically used in cosmetic and reconstructive surgery.

  7. Suture (anatomy) - Wikipedia

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    Crocodilian form of crurotarsal ankle. The astragalus (pink) is fixed to the tibia (green) by a suture. Adapted with permission from Palaeos. In the type of crurotarsal ankle, which is found in crocodilians and some other archosaurs, the astragalus is fixed to the tibia by a suture, and the joint bends around a peg on the astragalus, which fits into a socket in the calcaneum.

  8. Asterion (anatomy) - Wikipedia

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    the lambdoid suture. [1] parietomastoid suture. [1] occipitomastoid suture. [1] It is also the point where three cranial bones meet: the parietal bone. the occipital bone. the mastoid portion of the temporal bone. In the adult, it lies 4 cm behind and 12 mm above the center of the entrance to the ear canal.

  9. Halsted's principles - Wikipedia

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    Halsted's principles, also known as Tenets of Halsted, are the basic principles of surgical technique regarding tissue handling. [1]These key points were introduced in the late 19th century by William Stewart Halsted, co-founder of Johns Hopkins Hospital.