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Noun Concept
Categories: First aid, Implants (medicine), Surgical suture material
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suture  surgical seam  surgical suture  0-silk  Absorbable suture
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A seam used in surgery WordNet 3.0
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A seam used in surgery WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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. Wikipedia
A stitch used by doctors and surgeons to hold tissue together Wikipedia Disambiguation
A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound. Wiktionary
Seam. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
seam
surgical instrument
HAS KIND
Serdev suture
catgut suture
barbed suture
Wound closure strip
Monocryl
+2 relations
DERIVATION
suture
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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suture, surgical seam
Wikipedia
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surgical suture
Wikidata
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surgical suture
Wiktionary
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suture
Wikipedia Redirections
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0-silk, Absorbable suture, Aortorrhaphy, CT-3 needle, Cutting needle, Dissolving stitches, double layer suturing, Jenkin's Rule, Jenkins rule, Medical stitches, medical sutures, O-silk, Purse-string, purse-string suture, purse-string suturing, Purse string, silk suture, Silk tie, single layer suturing, stitch (surgery), surgical needle, Surgical stitch, Surgical stitches, surgical sutures, surgical thread, suture material, Suture needle, Suture sizes, suture techniques, sutures, suturing needle, tissue adhesive

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