suture
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"There'll be rapid tests, suture kits, syringes, oxygen supplies, vaccines and a small fridge for storing medicines," it explained in a statement.
From BBC ● May 5, 2025
“The theory is that the internal brace suture and the repaired native ligament will share the load of the new graft as the graft is maturing,” ElAttrache said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
Veterinarians rehydrate it with saline solution before surgery, then lay it over a dog's corneal lesion and suture it into place, where it acts as scaffolding for regenerating cells.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 1, 2023
The unexpected finding led the team to hypothesize that another type of bone-forming stem cell was driving the abnormal suture fusion.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023
He did the second suture; she tied it off and cut the thread.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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Cuba’s once highly regarded medical services have deteriorated, so Mariño has bought all her own medical supplies for the birth of her daughter, including sutures and surgical tape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
He had 28-day-old sutures he contemplated removing himself because they itched so badly.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2025
The sutures remained tight and painful weeks after the birth, she wrote in the medical board complaint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2024
After being implanted in the body, where they were held in place by sutures, fibrotic scarring occurred.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024
He searched thin walls, weak sutures of spindle bones above the ear for thresholds.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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For one group of rats, the sutured area was irradiated with a helium plasma jet.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024
Polzin has since made over 100 similar works: He regards the awkward results, which he calls “reunificated furniture,” as a metaphor for his hastily sutured country.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
Once sedated, it was transported to a veterinary practice at Birtley where it underwent X-rays and a wound suffered when it had attempted to escape the trap was cleaned and sutured.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2022
We’re in a loop of exposure to the kinds of earth-shattering recordings that were once the rarest commodity but that now bring no resolution — an open wound showed again and again, never sutured.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2021
The first creature looked like the top half of a miniature giraffe sutured onto the bottom half of a donkey.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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“The Pitt” spent its first season suturing our heartstrings to these characters by way of an impressively profound level of character development, rounding out the individual quirks of seemingly minor recurring characters.
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2026
In the medical area, adhesives play a crucial role, from suturing internal wounds to attaching sensors and implanting medical devices.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2024
“He was suturing in his sleep,” she says.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2023
Some involve injecting cardiomyocytes into the heart wall, others require suturing patches made from cells directly onto the heart.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2023
As a student, his work was confined to administrative tasks, record-keeping, and providing assistance in treatment, suturing, and other minor tasks.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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