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seromuscular

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seromuscular /se·ro·mus·cu·lar/ (-mus´ku-ler) pertaining to the serous and muscular coats of the intestine.
seromuscular [se″ro-mus´ku-lar]
pertaining to the serous and muscular coats of the intestine.

seromuscular
pertaining to the serous and muscular coats of the intestine.

seromuscular suture
a suture placed across the serosa and muscular layers, but not the mucosa, of the bowel. Used in the closure of enterotomy incisions.


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Think of how the furrier works with the stink of the dead animal laid out on the table before him, stitching flesh by piercing first one margin of the incision and then the other from within, outward--overlying sutures placed through the seromuscular layers to reinforce the closure- CLOSE HER.
Amarpal et al (7) reported the occurrence of adhesion between graft and neighbouring muscles as early as 7th postoperative day following cervical oesophagoplasty using gastric seromuscular autogenous grafts in dogs.
 
 
 
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