Catgut suture was once a widely used material in surgical settings.

"Catgut suture's manufactured by a dozen different companies, most of them in Asia.

The first medical use of a biodegradable polymer were Catgut sutures.

Catgut sutures continue to be used in developing countries where they are locally less expensive and easier to obtain.

The original sutures were made from biological materials, such as catgut suture and silk.

Fast catgut suture is heat-treated to give even more rapid absorption in the body.

'And where would he get this catgut suture?"

The use of catgut suture.

Catgut suture has high knot-pull tensile strength and good knot security due to special excellent handling features.

Chromic catgut suture is a variant treated with chromic acid salts.

"The catgut suture," said Rizzoli.

Ukewise, I'd made my own catgut sutures; a mess disgusting business, but at least I was sure of the sterility, my materials.

Catgut suture is a type of surgical suture that is naturally degraded by the body's own proteolytic enzymes.

I was acutely aware of each movement, each breath, the tug and pull of the catgut sutures as I tightened the inguinal ring, but my hands did not belong to me.

Catgut suture is made by twisting together strands of purified collagen taken from the serosal or submucosal layer of the small intestine of healthy ruminants (cattle, sheep, goats) or from beef tendon.

Galen is also known as "The king of the catgut suture" Abulcasis used the technique in the 10th century although the ligature has commonly been attributed to Ambroise Paré in the 16th century, Paré cites his sources (Hippocrates, Galen, and Avicenna).