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  2. 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.

  3. Fibrin glue - Wikipedia

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    Fibrin glue (also called fibrin sealant) is a surgical formulation used to create a fibrin clot for hemostasis, cartilage repair surgeries or wound healing. It contains separately packaged human fibrinogen and human thrombin .

  4. Butyl cyanoacrylate - Wikipedia

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    The medical applications of butyl cyanoacrylate include its use as an adhesive for lacerations of the skin, [5] and in the treatment of bleeding from vascular structures. Butyl cyanoacrylate has been used to treat arteriovenous malformations [6] by application of the glue into the abnormality through angiography.

  5. Varicose veins - Wikipedia

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    Also called medical super glue, medical adhesive is an advanced non-surgical treatment for varicose veins during which a solution is injected into the diseased vein through a small catheter and under the assistance of ultrasound-guided imagery.

  6. Cyanoacrylate - Wikipedia

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    An incision wound closed with Dermabond, a cyanoacrylate-based medical adhesive. Cyanoacrylate glue is widely used in human and veterinary medicine. [6] It was in veterinary use for mending bone, hide, and tortoise shell by the early 1970s or before.

  7. Adhesion (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    The fibrin acts like a glue to seal the injury and builds the fledgling adhesion, said at this point to be "fibrinous." In body cavities such as the peritoneal, pericardial , and synovial cavities , a family of fibrinolytic enzymes may act to limit the extent of the initial fibrinous adhesion, and may even dissolve it.

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  9. 2-Octyl cyanoacrylate - Wikipedia

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    2-Octyl cyanoacrylate is a cyanoacrylate ester typically used as a wound closure adhesive (under the brand name Dermabond). [1] It is closely related to octyl cyanoacrylate. The use of 2-octyl cyanoacrylate was approved in 1998; offered as an alternative to stitches, sutures, and or adhesive strips. [2]