suture

"He is rightly celebrated internationally for his innovative and pioneering approach, including his introduction of the B-Lynch suture, which is still being used today."

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

“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

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

Back in 2011, the writer-director was already tinkering with a version of the monster that resembled a blend of Iggy Pop and Boris Karloff with jagged sutures, gaunt wrinkles and a crushed nose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025

He had 28-day-old sutures he contemplated removing himself because they itched so badly.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2025

Already researchers have harnessed spider silk for a biomedical and engineering uses as sutures and scaffolding for regrowing tissue.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 12, 2024

Attached to the camera is a tiny stitching device, involving a fine needle and permanent sutures.

From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2023

I accept that I’m probably the most qualified for the job, grit my teeth, and put in a row of jagged sutures.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

For one group of rats, the sutured area was irradiated with a helium plasma jet.

From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024

During the embalming process, the body is cleaned and the mouth sutured closed.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2023

Rodriguez could now follow the contour of the tube with a surgical device that sequentially cut, stapled and sutured stomach tissue.

From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2023

When this happens, doctors may recommend surgical treatments, such as a heart transplant or implantation of mechanical pumps that are sutured into the patient’s heart to help pump blood throughout the body.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2022

It was as though we were two halves of the same animal, sutured together by a bond deeper than flesh.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

This is what they found: The suturing together of Pangaea Ultima’s constituent parts would increase volcanic activity, powering a massive pulse of explosive, greenhouse gas–belching eruptions that raise global temperatures.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 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

This stretched from the neat suturing of wounds, to reattachment and then full recreation of a cut-off nose.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2021

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