His keratoplasty technique remained standard until more efficient suture materials became available.

Sänger used silver and silk thread as suture material.

So many people had cut themselves on broken glass that cops were told that the emergency room was running out of suture material.

Another polymer is polyglecaprone, used as suture material in surgery.

I began to put away my suture materials, scissors and powder.

The linea alba and then the subcutaneous layer are closed with resorbable suture material.

Through many millennia, various suture materials were used, debated, and remained largely unchanged.

The body eventually breaks down the suture material and absorbs it.

"Then I can use heavier suture materials - 3-0 nylon, say - but it may leave a rather ugly scar."

"By God, that's better," he muttered, and began to lay out suture materials.