Suture, defined

Project leading, in R D, 21 619 Prokaryotes, defined, 3 757t Prolene suture, 24 215 Proline... 

The rocks of northern Victoria Land are cut by several northwest-trending fault zones including the Leap-Year, Lanterman, and Wilson faults in Fig. 4.2. These fault zones define the Wilson, Bowers, and Robertson Bay terranes. The juxtaposition of unrelated geologic features on opposite sides of these boundary faults suggests that they are major dislocations in the continental crust of northern Victoria Land and that they may represent sutures between accreted terranes. 

W. Channuan, J. Siripitayananon, R. Molloy, G.R. Mitchell, Defining the physical structure and properties in novel monofilaments with potential for use as absorbable surgical sutures based on a lactide containing block terpolymer, Polymer 49 (20) (2008) 4433-4445. 

Abstract Biotextile sterilization presents unique challenges. The chapter describes the principles of sterilization and the way in which sterility assurance levels are defined and demonstrated.Traditional thermal, chemical and radiation sterilization methods are described, as well as newer methods such as plasma and microwave sterilization, and applications for which each is suitable. The advantages of the emerging technology of radiochemical sterilization are described, together with some of its successful applications, such as surgical sutures and tissue adhesive and the results of recent comparative studies of radiochemical and other sterilization methods for absorbable materials. Projected future trends in sterilization technology are also outlined. 

Based on the US Pharmacopeia, absorbable and nonabsorbable sutures are defined as follows ... 

In the infant skull accessory sutures and synchondroses can be mistaken for fractures. The most common locations for accessory sutures are intrapa-rietal, located within the parietal bone. Intraparietal accessory sutures may be unilateral or bilateral. In the acute situation, presence or absence of overlying soft tissue swelling is helpful in differentiating between fractures and accessory sutures. Sutures also tend to have less sharply defined margins and may... 

Apart from the above-mentioned fiber formation techniques, biomaterial fibers may be produced by other techniques. Among these, biospinning plays an important role. Biospinning is defined as the process of direct fiber drawing from the spinning glands of various insects such as silkworms and spiders [37]. Biospun fibers, eg, from Bombyx mori silkworms, have been traditionally used as suture material [38]. 

Defined lesions were formed in rats by abrading the surface of the uterine horn and the adjacent sidewall. The injured tissues were kept in close proximity to each other by suturing the uterine horn to the side wall (Leach, 1990 Rice, 1993). Application of formulations containing poloxamer 407 to the injured tissues reduced adhesion formation by 30% to 55%. 

A second application is the controlled release of the polymer. Here, we report two different examples. The first example is a bioabsorbable suture. A suture is defined as bioabsorbable in solid polymeric materials or devices if it can dissolve in body fluids without any polymer chain cleavage or molecular mass decrease. Another example is a water-soluble implant that undergoes slow dissolution in body fluids. A bioabsorbable polymer also can be bioresorbable if the dispersed macromolecules are excreted [6]), or it is a MD belonging at least to class 11b [4] but usually to class 111 (release a drug with an ancillary function or it is completely resorbable) [5],... 

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