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  2. Wound closure strip - Wikipedia

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    Wound care with Steri-Strip tape and glue. Wound closure strips are ideal for use in highly contoured areas or areas of musculoskeletal movements, such as joints. They are also for use in areas where swelling, edema, hematomas, or bloating may occur. [citation needed] Additionally, they provide wound support following early suture or staple ...

  3. Dermal adhesive - Wikipedia

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    A dermal adhesive (or skin glue) is a glue used to close wounds in the skin as an alternative to sutures, staples, or clips. Glued closure results in less scarring and is less prone to infection than sutured or stapled closure. There is also no residual closure to remove, so follow-up visits for removal are not required.

  4. Liquid bandage - Wikipedia

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    In addition to their use in replacing conventional bandages in minor cuts and scrapes, they have found use in surgical and veterinary offices. [1] Liquid bandages are increasingly finding use in the field of combat, where they can be used to rapidly stanch a wound until proper medical attention can be obtained.

  5. Cyanoacrylate - Wikipedia

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    Cyanoacrylate glue has a low shearing strength, which has led to its use as a temporary adhesive in cases where the piece needs to be sheared off later. Common examples include mounting a workpiece to a sacrificial glue block on a lathe , and tightening pins and bolts.

  6. Adhesive bandage - Wikipedia

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    An adhesive bandage, also called a sticking plaster, sticky plaster, medical plaster, or simply plaster in British English, is a small medical dressing used for injuries not serious enough to require a full-size bandage.

  7. 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 of thread. There are numerous types of suture which differ by needle shape and size as well as thread material ...

  8. Surgical staple - Wikipedia

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    The use of staples over sutures reduces the local inflammatory response, width of the wound, and time it takes to close a defect. [ 1 ] A more recent development, from the 1990s, uses clips instead of staples for some applications; this does not require the staple to penetrate.

  9. Vertical mattress stitch - Wikipedia

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    The vertical mattress stitch is most commonly used in anatomic locations which tend to invert, such as the posterior aspect of the neck, and sites of greater skin laxity such as the closure of lax skin after removing a dermoid cyst or reduced subcutaneous tissue (e.g., the shin) that do not provide adequate subcutaneous tissue for dermal closure. [6]

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