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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 .
Sutures are often used, aided by a needle holder. Cautery and related instruments are used with increasing frequency in high resource countries. Retractors: Surgery is often considered to be largely about exposure. A multitude of retractors exist to aid in exposing the body's cavities accessed during surgery.
Pandit Madhusudan Gupta (Bengali: মধুসূদন গুপ্ত) (1800 – 15 November 1856) was a Bengali Baidya Brahmin translator and Ayurvedic practitioner who was also trained in Western medicine and is credited with having performed India's first human dissection at Calcutta Medical College (CMC) in 1836, almost 3,000 years after Susruta.
Spanish Muslim doctor Al-Zahrawi described the procedure around the year 1000 in his book Kitab al-Tasrif. [4] The concept of a ligature was reintroduced some 500 years later by Ambroise Paré and first performed by him in the village of Damvillers. [5] [6] It finally found its modern use in 1870–1880, made popular by Jules-Émile Péan.
The sagittal plane or lateral plane (longitudinal, anteroposterior) is a plane parallel to the sagittal suture. It divides the body into left and right. It divides the body into left and right. The coronal plane or frontal plane ( vertical ) divides the body into dorsal and ventral (back and front, or posterior and anterior) portions.
Sutures and gomphoses are both synarthroses. Joints which allow more movement are called amphiarthroses or diarthroses . Syndesmoses are considered to be amphiarthrotic, because they allow a small amount of movement.
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Human anatomy is the scientific study of the morphology of the adult human. It is subdivided into gross anatomy and microscopic anatomy . Gross anatomy (also called topographical anatomy, regional anatomy, or anthropotomy) is the study of anatomical structures that can be seen by unaided vision.