| DOLLS | [Lee] double-loop locking suture |
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| DPS | delayed primary suture; descending perineum syndrome; dimethylpolysiloxane; dysesthetic pain syndrom... |
| FMN | first malignant neoplasm; flavin mononucleotide; frontomaxillonasal [suture] |
| ns | nanosecond; nonspecific; no sequelae; no specimen; not significant; nylon suture |
| SES | Society of Eye Surgeons; socioeconomic status; spatial emotional stimulus; sphenoethmoidal suture; s... |
perichondral cutaneous graft
| Albert's suture | A modified Czerny suture, the first row of stitches passing through the entire thickness of the wall of the gut. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| apposition suture | A suture of the skin only. Synonym: coaptation suture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| approximation suture | A suture that pulls together the deep tissues. (05 Mar 2000) |
| atraumatic suture | A suture swaged onto the end of an eyeless needle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| blanket suture | A continuous lock-stitch used to approximate the skin of a wound. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bridle suture | A suture passed through the superior rectus muscle to rotate the globe downward in eye surgery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bunnell's suture | A method of tenorrhaphy using a pull-out wire affixed to buttons. (05 Mar 2000) |
| buried suture | Any suture placed entirely below the surface of the skin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| button suture | A suture in which the threads are passed through the holes of a button and then tied; used to reduce the danger of the threads cutting through the flesh. (05 Mar 2000) |
| palatoethmoidal suture | Line of junction of the orbital process of the palatine bone and the orbital plate of the ethmoid. Synonym: sutura palatoethmoidalis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| palatomaxillary suture | Line of union, in the floor of the orbit, between the orbital process of the palatine bone and the orbital surface of the maxilla. Synonym: sutura palatomaxillaris. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Pancoast's suture | In plastic surgery, union of two edges by a tongue-and-groove arrangement. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gely's suture | A cobbler's suture used in closing intestinal wounds. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Pare's suture | The approximation of the edges of a wound by pasting strips of cloth to the surface and stitching them instead of the skin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| parietomastoid suture | Articulation of the posterior inferior angle of the parietal with the mastoid process of the temporal bone. Synonym: sutura parietomastoidea. (05 Mar 2000) |