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American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary:

absorbable suture

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n.

A surgical suture that is composed of a material that is digestible by tissues of the body.

Mosby's Dental Dictionary:

absorbable suture

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A suture that becomes dissolved in body fluids and disappears (e.g., catgut).

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