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catgut::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | goat's rue, tephrosia virginiana, wild sweet pea |
| Type of | hoary pea |
Examples of catgut
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Later lines were constructed from horse hair or silk thread, with catgut leaders.
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His use of catgut for internal stitching is still practised in modern surgery.
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He traded cigarettes with guards to get the catgut he needed for strings.
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The drill Fauchard developed was manual and powered by a catgut twisted around a cylinder.
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The spools held suturing lines, which could have been silk, catgut, horsehair or some other material.
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For more than 18 centuries, the world's surgeons have mainly used catgut to stitch up their patients.
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The surgery was performed using ether and catgut suture from a spool that had to be manually threaded onto a needle.
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We're not some throwaway piece of wood and catgut like that Yonex junk Lleyton Hewitt and Bernard Tomic use.
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So why do they call it catgut?
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- Perennial subshrub of eastern North America having downy leaves yellowish and rose flowers and; source of rotenone
- A strong cord made from the intestines of sheep and used in surgery
- Catgut is an unsigned UK based alternative music act, described as "low-tech voice, keyboard and guitar based music, dirty videos, bloody artwork - a twisted, vocalised gameboy soundtrack". ...
- A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, especially of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc; The material from which such cords are made; A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices
- The oldest type of absorbable suture. In spite of its name, catgut is made from collagen derived from sheep or cattle intestines. Synthetic absorbable sutures have been available since the 1980s.
