catgut in English

noun
1
a material used for the strings of some musical instruments, made of the dried twisted intestines of sheep or horses (but not cats).
Earlier, patients had to buy all the essential items required for surgical operations such as gloves, catgut (surgical sutures), and even cleaning material like liquid iodine.
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1. Examples of Absorbable sutures are: Catgut, Polydioxanone (PDS), Polyglactin (Vicryl) and Polyglycolic acid

2. (a) sterile surgical catgut, similar sterile suture materials and sterile tissue adhesives for surgical wound closure;

3. The mixed suture pack is consists of ABSORBABLE: Chromic Catgut and NON-ABSORBABLE: Nylon, Polypropylene, Polyester, Silk in different sizes (USP): 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, and 5-0

4. Chromic catgut compared with polyglactin 910 (Vicryl) resulted in a significant reduction in blood transfusions as well as a significant reduction in complications requiring relaparotomy in one trial (RCT, n=9544)