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UK
/kˈætɡʌt/
]
NOUN
- a strong cord made from the intestines of sheep and used in surgery
- perennial subshrub of eastern North America having downy leaves yellowish and rose flowers and; source of rotenone
How To Use catgut In A Sentence
- Objective: To observe the therapeutic effect of intracutaneous catgut embedding therapy on chronic injury of soft tissues.
- Objective: To observe the therapeutic effect of intracutaneous catgut embedding therapy on chronic injury of soft tissues.
- She has complained that he ignored her warnings that she had a life threatening allergy to catgut when he performed a hysterectomy on her in 1997.
- Strings were made from catgut: animal lovers will be relieved to know that wire is used today.
- When the trauma is greater use a sterile strand of catgut and loop it so it is caught in the adjacent loop.
- Earlier, patients had to buy all the essential items required for surgical operations such as gloves, catgut (surgical sutures), and even cleaning material like liquid iodine.
- Now Mike himself was a sad musician, and the sound of him fandangoin 'uncertainly up and down the fretful spine of that instrument was a tribulation I'd put up with on account of friendship, pure and simple, but when that discord-lovin' lady cliff-dweller set all evenin 'in our tent and scraped snake-dances out of them catguts with a fish-bone, I pulled my freight and laid out in the moonlight with the dogs. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
- They may be called catgut, but they are actually made from sheep intestines. Undefined
- The same "catgut" is used for medical sutures in surgery and strings for tennis rackets. Undefined
- Objective: To observe the therapeutic effect of intracutaneous catgut embedding therapy on chronic injury of soft tissues.