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Suture

Meaning in veterinary medicine, with examples

/ˈsuːtʃə/nounCore term

In veterinary medicine, suture means: A stitch or line of stitches used to close a wound or surgical incision, or the thread used to make it. As a verb, it means to close with stitches.

In Turkish: dikiş, sütür, dikmek

How it is used

Surgeons choose the suture material (absorbable or non-absorbable) and the suture pattern. With owners, vets say stitches: The stitches come out in ten days. Skin sutures are usually removed at a post-op check.

Example sentences

  1. We'll use absorbable sutures, so there are no stitches to remove.

  2. The vet sutured the cut on the horse's leg under standing sedation.

Common collocations

  • absorbable suture
  • skin sutures
  • suture removal
  • suture the wound
  • suture material
  • incisionA clean cut made through the skin and tissues with a scalpel during surgery, or the wound that it leaves.
  • woundAn injury in which the skin or other tissue is cut, torn, pierced or burned, such as a bite, a laceration or a surgical incision.
  • Elizabethan collarA cone-shaped plastic or fabric collar fitted around an animal's neck to stop it licking, biting or scratching a wound, its stitches or its eyes.
  • spayTo remove a female animal's ovaries, and usually her uterus too, by surgery so that she cannot become pregnant or come into heat.

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