relaxation suture

suture /su·ture/ (soo´cher)

1. sutura.

2. a stitch or series of stitches made to secure apposition of the edges of a surgical or traumatic wound.

3. to apply such stitches.

4. material used in closing a wound with stitches.su´tural

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absorbable suture  a strand of material used for closing wounds which is subsequently dissolved by the tissue fluids.

apposition suture  a superficial suture used for exact approximation of the cutaneous edges of a wound.

approximation suture  a deep suture for securing apposition of the deep tissue of a wound.

buried suture  one placed deep in the tissues and concealed by the skin.

catgut suture  see surgical gut, under gut.

coaptation suture  apposition s.

cobblers' suture  one made with suture material threaded through a needle at each end.

continuous suture  one in which a continuous, uninterrupted length of material is used.

coronal suture  the line of junction of the frontal bone with the two parietal bones.

cranial sutures  the lines of junction between the bones of the skull.

Czerny's suture 

1. an intestinal suture in which the thread is passed through the mucous membrane only.

2. union of a ruptured tendon by splitting one of the ends and suturing the other end into the slit.

false suture  a line of junction between apposed surfaces without fibrous union of the bones.

figure-of-eight suture  one in which the threads follow the contours of the figure 8.

Gély's suture  a continuous stitch for wounds of the intestine, made with a thread having a needle at each end.

glover's suture  lock-stitch s.

Halsted suture  a modification of the Lembert suture.

interrupted suture  one in which each stitch is made with a separate piece of material.

Lembert suture  an inverting suture used in gastrointestinal surgery.

lock-stitch suture  a continuous hemostatic suture used in intestinal surgery, in which the needle is, after each stitch, passed through the loop of the preceding stitch.

loop suture  interrupted s.

mattress suture  a method in which the stitches are parallel with (horizontal mattress s.) or at right angles to (vertical mattress s.) the wound edges.

nonabsorbable suture  suture material which is not absorbed in the body.

purse-string suture  a continuous, circular inverting suture, such as is used to bury the stump of the appendix.

relaxation suture  any suture so formed that it may be loosened to relieve tension as necessary.

subcuticular suture  a method of skin closure involving placement of stitches in the subcuticular tissues parallel with the line of the wound.

uninterrupted suture  continuous s.

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relaxation suture

n.

A suture that is arranged so that it may be loosened if the tension of the wound becomes excessive.