Suturing can be variously defined as follows:
- Suturing is the basic part of surgery technique in all medical specialities.
- Suturing consists in ensuring good adaptation of body tissues for proper wound healing.
- Suturing is a skill that requires good technique and the right material.
Summary
| Absorbable Non-Absorbable Armed | A Chapter |
| Bending strength Body Braided | B Chapter |
| Capillarity Coating Colours Curvature | C Chapter |
| Diameter Ductility | D Chapter |
| Elasticity Elongation | E Chapter |
| Flexibility (pliability) | F Chapter |
| Glide Glyconate | G Chapter |
| Healing Hydrolysis | H Chapter |
| Knot security Knots | K Chapter |
| Length Ligature Loop | L Chapter |
| Memory Metric Monofilament | M Chapter |
| Natural Needle | N Chapter |
| Origin | O Chapter |
| P4HB Packaging Pharmacopoeias Physical structure Plasticity Point Polyester Polyglycolic acid Polymer Polypropylene | P Chapter |
| Range Reels Resorption (absorption) | R Chapter |
| Steel Sterilisation Strands Synthetic | S Chapter |
| Tensile strength Tissue reaction | T Chapter |
| USP | U Chapter |
| Shock Z | Z Chapter |
| References at a glance | References |