| NSABP | National Surgical Adjuvant Breast Project |
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| PSH | past surgical history; postspinal headache |
| PSICU | pediatric surgical intensive care unit |
| PSW | primary surgical ward; positive sharp wave; psychiatric social worker |
| RCSSS | resource coordination system for surgical service |
| retention suture | <surgery> A heavy reinforcing suture placed deep within the muscles and fasciae of the abdominal wall to relieve tension on the primary suture line and thus obviate postoperative wound disruption. Synonym: tension suture. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Gould's suture | An intestinal mattress suture in which each loop is invaginated in such a way that the tissue at the loop is bulged out, becoming convex instead of concave. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gussenbauer's suture | A figure-of-8 suture for the intestine, resembling the Czerny-Lembert suture but not including the mucous membrane. (05 Mar 2000) |
| metopic suture | A persistent frontal suture, sometimes discernible a short distance above sutura frontonasalis. Synonym: sutura metopica. (05 Mar 2000) |
| coaptation suture | A suture of the skin only. Synonym: coaptation suture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cobbler's suture | A suture with a needle attached at both ends. Synonym: cobbler's suture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wedge-and-groove suture | A form of fibrous joint in which the sharp edge of one bone is received in a cleft in the edge of the other, as in the articulation of the vomer with the rostrum of the sphenoid. Synonym: schindylesis, schindyletic joint, wedge-and-groove suture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| plane suture | A simple firm apposition of two smooth surfaces of bones, without overlap, as seen in the lacrimomaxillary suture. Synonym: sutura plana, harmonia, harmonic suture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pledgetted suture | A suture supported by a small piece of cloth or tissue so that the suture will tear through the tissue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Connell's suture | <surgery> A continuous suture used for inverting the gastric or intestinal walls in performing an anastomosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| continuous suture | An uninterrupted series of stitches using one suture; the stitching is fastened at each end by a knot. Synonym: spiral suture, uninterrupted suture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| control release suture | Eyeless suture with thread attached to needle such that the two separate when tension is applied to the thread. (05 Mar 2000) |
| coronal suture | The line of junction of the frontal with the two parietal bones of the skull. Synonym: sutura coronalis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Cushing's suture | A running horizontal mattress suture used to approximate two adjacent surfaces. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Halsted's suture | A suture placed through the subcuticular fascia; used for exact skin approximation. (05 Mar 2000) |