XXV) are the most familiar and perhaps the most characteristic monuments of Assyrian art.
However that may be, in later days the horse seems to have been reserved for the battle-field and the chase.
Mesopotamia than in those of Egypt, where the tombs so often exhibit the daily scenes of agricultural life.
Galen alludes to sutures of wool, and Paulus Aegineta in the operation for ectropion says: 'Afterwards we unite the divided parts with a needle carrying a woollen thread, being satisfied with two sutures.
We have here contrasted two methods of closing a wound, and the conclusion is readily arrived at that sutures in the first case and some metal contrivance in the second are intended.
If silk sutures be used, the chief difficulty, that of passing the thread through the second side from behind forwards, can be avoided in the following manner.
When brought together by sutures a projection is left at the edge of the lip; this, in most cases, disappears; if it does not, it can easily be pared down.
The gap left between D B D must be left to granulate, but in most cases may be very much diminished in size by additional suturesat its outer corners, near D.
He applies sutures through the sides of the dilated inguinal or crural canals, or umbilical openings, in such a manner as to insure their complete closure.
The colon must afterwards be attached to the skin forming the margin of the wound by foursutures at the points of entry and exit of the needles.
That sutures should be inserted to keep the edges in apposition, yet not so tightly as to cause ulceration.
No special sutures for the wound in the oesophagus are required, nor is it advisable too closely to sew up the external wound.
Diagram of an artificial anus, showing small sutures which unite the edges of the gut and the skin, and the large ones stitching up the wound beyond.
If the edges do not fit accurately, one or two horse-hair sutures will help.
Bayer, however, again prefers a dressing of the wound, and especially the moistening of the line of sutures with the 1 in 5 solution of iodoform in ether.
At the end of a week the sutures may be removed, and the animal turned into a loose box or out to pasture.
One general feature of the adult bird's skull is the almost complete disappearance of the sutures between the bones of the cranium proper, whilst another is the great movability of the whole palatal and other suspensorial apparatus.
By the 16th century, both in England and on the continent, a tendency had begun to emphasize the ridges of the sutures and thus produce a square shape.
This was the point of attachment of a short column, by which the seed was united to one of the sutures of a long pod, in the interior of which it lay, in company with several others like itself.
When the dressings were removed, five days afterward, all was healed, the sutures removed, and the suspensory alone replaced.
It has been my practice to use fine silver-wire and catgut sutures in all operations on the prepuce; they excite less suppuration as well as less irritation.
Sutures that require removal should not be used, according to the Doctor, and the operation thereby becomes a perfectly painless and unalarming performance to the patient in all its details.
When they return to a state of rest, the sutures usually meet and coincide longitudinally; but in some cases when closed, as in Necydalis, &c.
In apterous beetles the elytra are often connate, or have both sutures as it were soldered together.
Section, showing the foliated border of the sutures of the chambers.
The stereom and stroma become arranged in folds and strands at right angles to the sutures of the thecal plates; in higher forms the stereom-folds are in part specialized as pectini-rhombs.
On the 5th day after the operation, in the Governor's hospital room, the wound on the dorsal surface of his wrist was closed by wire sutures and this was carried out in the room.
The subcutaneous tissue was then closed with interrupted sutures of No.
The skin was closed with interrupted vertical mattress sutures of black silk.
The fourth and fifth intercoastal muscle bundles were then approximated with interrupted sutures of No.
The skin was then closed with interrupted vertical mattress sutures of black silk.
No sutures are needed for the uterine incision: the contractions of the organ not only diminish its length, but generally bring its edges into sufficiently close contact.
Cases have been described where the cranial bones were completely ossified, and the sutures perfect; but this latter is very doubtful.
After twelve or twenty-four hours, often much earlier, the sutures are clipped through and removed.
Interstices are left for thesutures and the ends of the ligatures, and the latter may now be abridged slightly.
Then, after removing all coagula, sutures are placed in the same perforations, and the stump is in as favourable a state as previously.
One end of the ligature being cut off, the other was left protruding at the inner angle of the wound, the edges of which were closed by three sutures and adhesive strips.
This opinion is based upon the fact that the coronal and sagittal sutures were not obliterated.
A pod-like fruit composed of a solitary carpel and usually splitting open by both sutures (Leguminosae).
Legume flattened, pubescent, its sutures not thickened, slightly grooved; seeds in 1 rank.
Legume cylindric, glabrous, itssutures conspicuously thickened and grooved; seeds in 2 ranks.
It would be seen that the nasal bones of the tiger run up higher than those of the lion, the apices of whose nasal and maxillary sutures are on a level.
The sutures are inserted very much in the same manner as in the ordinary operation for ruptured perineum.
Mention the appearance of the suturesat different ages.
In obstinate cases, entirely extirpate the fibrous walls; sew the deeper parts of the wound with buried catgut sutures, and approximate the skin surfaces with interrupted sutures of silkworm gut.
Close the edges with silk sutures or silkworm gut if the wound is deep and tension inevitable.
Care, however, should be taken to inject just sufficient of the solution to penetrate beyond the zone of operation laterally, to insure sufficient space for the insertion of sutures into anesthetized tissues.
They were hard at it for another hour, and while Sheila O'Leary's hands flew from sterilizer to ether cone, from handing instruments and holding forceps to tying sutures and packing wounds, her mind was busy with something that lay far beyond.
The chief of the Surgical Staff looked at Sheila as she handed him the sutures he was reaching for.
One specimen shows by an indication of sutures the original division of the distal carpal into three bones; and the separated constituent bones are very rarely met with.
There usually is some difficulty in stating the limits of the bones of the skull, because in Pterodactyles, as among birds, they usually blend together, so that in the adult animal the suturesbetween the bones are commonly obliterated.
This character is no mark of affinity, but only shows that ossification obliterated sutures among these animals in the same way as among birds.
In its first days it does not show the dark color of the adult; the sutures of the head, which with us close up only late in life, with it ossify speedily, as in idiots and monkeys, and the anterior sooner than the posterior.
The process was carried still farther, and thesutures were elaborately frilled in the great order of the Ammonites.
We have noticed that in the Devonian the sutures of some of the chambered shells become angled, evolving the Goniatite type.
The sutures now become lobed and corrugated in Ceratites.
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