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 • Dec. 21, 2023

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 • Nov. 3, 2016

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 • Jun. 14, 2011

Pass it through two or three inches of the skin with a curved surgical needle.

From The Dog by Dinks

A. T., aged thirty-six, a tall strong servant-maid, after inhaling for seventeen minutes, became unconscious, and appeared not to feel a trifling wound with a surgical needle.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various