A ____ suture is one in which the suture is released from the swage by pulling back sharply rather than having to cut the suture.

An French eye needle may have the suture strand permanently attached.

Match the media with its description:

The curvature of a needle allows the surgeon to dip beneath the surface of the tissue and retrieve the point as it emerges.

Which of these suture sizes has the largest diameter?

Eschar can accumilate on the end of a bovie tip, therefore, a surgical technologist should clean the bovie tip and remove the eschar.

Once a sterile drape has been placed, it should not be repositioned.

An organism that is capable of incomplete hemolysis will result in a green halo surrounding the bacterial colonies and is called alpha hemolysis.

Complex media contains precise amounts of pure chemicals in distilled water, while defined media often contains digests or extracts.

What event is SJ Gould describing in this paragraph? “Thus did the second unmasking begin in the transposed home and living presence of the first – and the ghost of Linnaeus smiled (being more generous and ecumenical than the great Swede in life) as Darwin’s words revealed a causal basis for the natural order that Linnaeus had codified. And the psalmist intoned his ancient song: “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!”