Sheep intestine can be formed into sausage casings, and lamb intestine has been formed into surgical sutures, as well as strings for musical instruments and tennis rackets.
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Sister-nurses tended to the sick, cooked the patients meals, did the laundry, stoked the furnace and even used the hair of convent horses to make surgical sutures.
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The families of three people who died of infections after routine operations have filed wrongful death lawsuits against Ethicon Inc ., the world's largest manufacturer of surgical sutures.
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An example is chitin a very durable structural protein used in surgical sutures as well as durable varnishes but is common to many animals especially crustaceans and insects.
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The same material is used as in surgical suture ( resorbable polymers ), therefore the implant can be left in the body where after the material is resorbed by the tissue.
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Tissue engineering combines live cells from a neonatal foreskin with a mesh of absorbable surgical suture or tendons from a cow to grow tissue, which is laid down over a wound that won't heal.
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A medical manufacturer retrieved only 2 percent of about 3.6 million surgical sutures it recalled after the products allegedly were contaminated with infectious bacteria, the U . S . Food and Drug Administration said.
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Johnson & Johnson, the world's leading maker of surgical sutures, has seen its business fall flat as surgeons began performing procedures with an array of tiny tools through keyhole incisions instead of conventional methods.
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Johnson & AMP; Johnson, the world's leading maker of surgical sutures, has seen its business fall flat as surgeons began performing procedures with an array of tiny tools through keyhole incisions instead of conventional methods.
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Other Connecticut companies whose stock declined include U . S . Surgical Corp . Shares of the Norwalk-based company, which makes minimally invasive surgical suturing products, fell 1 5 / 8 to 34 7 / 8.
