retention suture

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A heavy reinforcing suture placed deeply within the muscles and fasciae of the abdominal wall to relieve tension on the primary suture line and avoid postsurgical wound disruption.tension suture

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A citizens group, Kansans for Justice, has sprung up as well to oppose retention of Justices Lee Johnson and Eric Rosen.
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But this was an element of Jeff that I understood; his mimicry and his retention for music and melody.
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Should the fluid contain food-particles, it is probably the result of retention, not hypersecretion.
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In due course the news came that the date of voting in the Senate for or against the retention of the Islands was fixed.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
Memory, which implies a former conscious experience, its retention, revival and recognition.
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This was rejected; and the lords, when the bill returned to them, did not insist upon its retention.
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Did he say he was innocent, or did he just have this conversation with respect to the retention of a counsel?
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