What is "sutures"

Usage examples of "sutures".

Four maternity nurses and two pediatric nurses hurried about, hooking up the suction, counting lap sponges and packages of sutures, and resetting dials on the newborn resuscitation cart.

Kingsley snipped through the wire sutures holding the split sternum together.

He handled sutures with an economy of precise motion that was a joy for the aspiring surgeons to watch.

The standard Y autopsy incision had been closed with heavy sutures and clumsy bites of tissue.

Taking a pair of scissors from his bag, he cut the sutures, then spread the sides of the wound.

Digen slipped back to hyper-consciousness, planting the last two, tiny sutures to secure the artery.

Several of the life-sign indicators were already close to zero, and the boy had begun to bleed internally, massively, far worse than before: the sutures were not holding.