Sentence examples for catgut from inspiring English sources

With this arrangement, the mainspring was made to rotate a barrel in which it was housed; a length of catgut, later replaced by a chain, was wound on it, the other end being coiled around the fusee.

Surgical catgut is sterilized by heat applied in progressive steps and maintained for several hours; it is often treated with an impregnating agent.

The origin of the term catgut is obscure; it is not known if the intestines of cats were ever put to such uses.

The head, strung with catgut, is usually 178 203 mm in diameter.

Italian catgut is considered the best for stringing musical instruments.

There are two basic types of suture materials; absorbable ones such as catgut (which comes from sheep intestine) or synthetic substitutes; and nonabsorbable materials, such as nylon sutures, steel staples, or adhesive tissue tape.

Throughout, the strings on RAM are made of catgut, not 1s and 0s; human orchestras swell.

Absorbable sutures made of catgut (made not from cat but from sheep intestines) or a synthetic material such as polyglycolic acid are used to approximate the deeper layers of tissue beneath the skin so that tissue reaction will be lessened.

Down the slope in jerks, his muscles and ligaments tightened like catgut tennis-racquet cord.

Surgeons had to be scrupulous about soaking their hands, their instruments, and even their catgut sutures in antiseptic solution.

Snuggled at 706 Union Avenue on the corner of Marshall, you could lob a catgut-strung double bass from one end of the recording studio to the other without breaking a sweat.