Absorbable sutures, also known as dissolvable stitches, are sutures that can naturally dissolve and be absorbed by the body as a wound heals. Not all wounds are sealed with absorbable sutures.

Triboelectric effect The bioabsorbable electrical stimulation suture (BioES-suture) converts the mechanical energy of movement into effective electrical stimulation. (Courtesy: Zhouquan Sun and ...

The skull consists of several connected plates of bone. Areas of fibrous tissue, called sutures, hold together the seams between these plates. The sutures meet at the fontanelles, which are the ...

In the patients assigned to undergo repair with sutures, the two edges of the fascia were approximated in the midline, usually with a continuous polypropylene suture (Prolene no. 1, Ethicon ...

One of the two sites was then sutured with one or two 4-0 nylon simple, interrupted sutures, and the matching site was allowed to heal by second intention. Hemostasis of the second-intention ...