Concept information
Preferred term
Surgical Staplers
Type
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Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Staplers, Surgical
- Stapler, Surgical
- Surgical Stapler
Scope note
- Fastening devices composed of steel-tantalum alloys used to close operative wounds, especially of the skin, which minimizes infection by not introducing a foreign body that would connect external and internal regions of the body. (From Segen, Current Med Talk, 1995)
History note
- 66(64)
In other languages
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Finnish
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agraffi
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agraffit
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haavahakanen
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ihohaavahakanen
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ihohaavahakaset
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ihohakanen
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ihohakaset
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Swedish
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Suturmaskiner
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013528
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