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"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

This compound is a starting material for polycaprolactone, a biodegradable polymer used in medical applications such as surgical sutures and drug-delivery systems.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

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

This cut sutures the two halves together while sustaining its unusual momentum.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

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

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2025

In angry weariness he opened the wall cabinet and collected scalpels and clamps, sponges and tubes of sutures, to put in his bag.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

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

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

“There was a suturing between music and language,” said Kristina Jacobsen, a songwriter and an anthropologist at the University of New Mexico who accompanied them.

From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2023

At age thirty-nine he’d already invented the first technique for suturing blood vessels together, and had used it to perform the first coronary bypass and develop methods for transplanting organs.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot