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

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

Pointing her elbows toward the ceiling, she revealed the suture scars where she was patched up.

From Reuters • May 13, 2023

There ought to be a suture, a layer of scar tissue, stretching up the eastern seaboard of the United States.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson