surgical needle

American  

noun

1. a needle for suturing.

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Example Sentences

Participants drove a surgical needle through three small holes, first in a virtual simulation and then in a real scenario using the da Vinci Research Kit, an open-source research robot.

From Science Daily

We paused to admire the Temple of Music’s brass-colored key, salvaged from the demolition debris, and a surgical needle used to stitch up the president.

From New York Times

Two employees of Needletech Products Inc, a surgical needle manufacturing company in North Attleborough, Massachusetts, said they heard the sounds between 3 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. on June 17, 2013, during breaks from their overnight shifts at the company.

From Reuters

Inspectors have moved the hospital to a lower level of risk after criticism earlier this year A Devon hospital is investigating how a surgical needle came to be left inside a patient.

From BBC

We threaded this wire into the eye of a surgical needle, passed the needle through our skin into a muscle and back out, and connected it to the Snodgrass amplifier and loudspeaker.

From Scientific American