Meanings of surgical suture in English

Background: Surgical sutures can promote migration of bacteria and thus start infections.

In order to reduce these type of infections antimicrobially coated surgical sutures are currently under development.

In this study, we investigated the antimicrobial drug octenidine as a coating agent for surgical sutures.

Spider silk has long been hailed as a superfiber, useful for everything from surgical sutures to bulletproof vests to scaffolding for growing cartilage.

For quite a while it has been possible to purchase various nylon products: thread, fishing-line, surgical sutures, and brushes including Dr. West's Miracle-Tuft tooth brusher.