Sentence examples for suture thread from inspiring English sources

The lesions were stitched using identical techniques and similar suture thread.

These include "excavated shrapnel," "mourning dress fabric," "battlefield dirt," "a WWI chaplain's metal rosary beads," "WWII surgical suture thread" and pulp made from "brides' letters to soldiers from various wars" and "soldiers' letters to sons from various wars".

Projected on a video monitor nearby was an image of the box's contents: a mound of synthetic tissue and, planted in the top layer, at the edge of a large gash, a curved needle and suture thread.

In both groups, the failure mode registered in each specimen was suture breakage (rupture of suture thread).

The Cdht-NC also possessed adequate mechanical resistance against radial compression, the pull-out of a suture thread, and loss of patency upon bending.

Parallel sliding knots were made by changing the suture thread that was kept under tension and alternately tying the suture with the left and right hand.

When officers came by to drop off the injured or simply to wash up and rest for a few minutes, nurses gave them packets of suture threads to keep in their pockets for later, in case they were the ones who needed to be stitched up.

The result, as they recently reported in Biomacromolecules, is that they can spin bovine serum albumin into long, even fibres that are perfect for creating both suture threads and thick mats similar to conventional wound dressings, but on a small scale.

Overall, the implemented method may open an alternative way to design surgical suture threads that guarantee protection against opportunistic pathogens during wound healing.

The aim of this work was to implement a radiation-grafting method for the surface functionalization of polypropylene (PP) suture threads with N-vinyl imidazole (NVI) for the subsequent loading of silver (Ag) particles onto the surface.

In contrast responses recorded from sham pMCAO control animals (n = 21, Figure 1L) were robust (sham pMCAO control animals underwent the same surgery and protocol as +0 h animals [Figure 1A], except their suture threads were never tightened to occlude MCA) (Figure 5A).