Several silk sutures sufficed to hold two segments of chicken wire to the heart's surface.

Gräfenberg's ring is a flexible ring of silk suture, later versions of which were wrapped in silver wire.

A continuous 6/0 silk suture was used for intestinal anastomoses.

Micro-marsupialization uses silk sutures in the dome of a cyst to allow new epithelialized drainage pathways.

The little nurse asked, as she handed Shelley a fresh needle and silk suture, 'You know him?'

Honey," he said to the nurse, "have 2-0 silk sutures ready-those swedged on jobs.

The needle was subsequently retrieved and the arteriotomy was closed with 8-0 silk suture.

The abdominal wall was closed with silk suture.

The umbilical cord should be tied with a 2-0 silk suture rather than a clamp to prevent trauma to the delicate mucosa.

The rest of the procedure was uneventful; a few silk sutures repaired the damage.