The word "sutures" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to the stitches used to close a wound or surgical incision. For example, "The doctor used sutures to close the wound."
Thanks to clever brains and dextrous suckers, they can also open locks, unscrew jars and even untie surgical sutures.
The director of Basra's largest hospital says he must do without sutures and blood for transfusions for weeks at a time.
Not only are these threads and mats readily accepted by the body, but the albumin of which they are composed has glue-like properties, which helps to stick torn tissues together.The consequence is that sutures made with these new threads are expected to reduce the scarring left when the stitches are removed.
Angiotech's managers reckon their company has devised a good way to apply drug coatings to all sorts of medical paraphernalia, from sutures and syringes to catheters, in order to reduce the shock to the body.
Mr Turner imagines fine filaments of spider silk being used as sutures in ophthalmological, vascular or neurological surgeries.
China could well become a bigger force in this market than Europe by 2020 both by creating new medical technology and by using it.Take sutures (for closing wounds), for example.
But even less advanced hospitals are likely to buy Covidien's sutures and staples, used in all kinds of surgery.The combined company will have annual revenues of $27 billion—about the same as the medical-device sales of the market leader, Johnson & Johnson.
Moreover, fibroin is harmless to people (silk is often used in sutures), so there is little risk of adverse side effects and it will thus probably not matter if some silk gets into a vaccine when it is dissolved in water prior to inoculation.
Those who do must teach listless, malnourished children, often without benefit of books, desks or even blackboards.No sutures, no disinfectantHospitals display the effects of the embargo at their most tragic.
When we get the sutures we lose the sterilised gloves.
Sutures have a long and bizarre history, dating back to ancient Egypt, where everything from tree bark to hair was used to stitch human flesh back together again.The latest suggestion, though, is probably the most bizarre of the lot: bovine serum albumin, a protein found in cows' blood.
