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Q: What is a subcuticular suture?
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What is subcuticular prolene?

Prolene is the name of the suture used and sub cuticular is the the suturing techique used for a neat scar to close the surgical wound. It involves suturing under the skin so that no suture marks are left


Is subcuticular suturing a complex repair?

no


How does one do a surgical stitch?

There are many methods to surgical sewing. Methods such as the running subcuticular, horizontal mattress, interupted subcutaneous, vertical matress, retention sutures, and the mighty pursestring stitch are among the most common ways of placing surgical "stitches". Each one descibes the way the suture is placed. The type of suturing is also dependent upon the decision to use absorbable suture, or nonabsorbable suture. The suture is usually placed using sterile technique, usually done by a doctor, nurse practicioner, or surgical First Assistant, and can be done either in an emergency room type setting, or in the operating room. A needle holder is used to drive the needle through the tissue, ( the suture is fixed onto the back of the needle ), and in the other hand the sewer has a pair of forceps, or pickups. ( Tweezers to all you non medical field people ) After the required sutures are placed, the appropiate knot is placed, and then the remaining suture is cut with a pair of suture scissors.


Which suture connects the parietal and temporal bones?

The occipital, parietal and temporal bones are connected by the squamosal suture. This suture was not present when a person is a newborn baby.


What suture is most likely to contain sutural bones?

The LAMBDOID suture is the most likely suture to contain suture bones


Which suture connects the occipital and parietal bones?

The suture that goes in between the two parietal bones (left and right) is called the saggital suture. That is the main suture that runs in the middle of the top of your head. The parietal bones articulate with the occipital bone at the lambdoidal suture and with the temporal bones (left and right where the ears are), at the squamosal suture. Finally the parietal bones both meet with the frontal bone at the coronal suture. But the main suture between the parietals again is the saggital suture.Lambdoidal suture connects the two parietal bones together.


What is the medical term meaning suture of a kidney?

Splenorrhaphy is the medical term meaning surgical suture of the spleen.


What are the four major sutures of the skull?

Squamous suture (separates the temporal bone from the parietal bone), Coronal suture (separates the frontal bone from the parietal bone), Sagittal suture (separates the parietal bones) and the Lamboid suture (separates the occipital bone from the parietal bone)


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Suture - album - was created in 2000.


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Suture, nurture, computer.


What does the suffix raphy mean?

-rraphy means suture


In dentistry what is a lost sutures?

A lost suture, also called a wandering suture, is a suture that has migrated to outside of the oral cavity.