All sutures are classified as either absorbable or non-absorbable depending on whether the body will naturally degrade and absorb the suture material over time. Absorbable suture materials include the original catgut as well as the newer synthetics polyglycolic acid, polylactic acid, polydioxanone, and caprolactone.
Bracketing (phenomenology) Bracketing (German: Einklammerung; also called epochÃ©, or phenomenological reduction) is a term in the philosophical movement of phenomenology describing the act of suspending judgment about the natural world to instead focus on analysis of experience. Contents. 1 Overview.
Used unqualified, brackets refer to different types of brackets in different parts of the world and in different contexts. Brackets include round brackets/parentheses, square brackets, curly brackets/braces, angle brackets, and various other pairs of symbols. In addition to referring to the class of all types of brackets, the unqualified word bracket is most commonly used to refer to a specific type of bracket. In modern American usage this is usually the square bracket and in modern British usage this is usually the parenthesis.