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.
Round brackets can also be used to show that something could be singular or plural, e.g., Remove the pin(s) from the leg. When round brackets are used to insert information at the end of a sentence, the end punctuation of the sentence is placed outside the bracket. All the crew survived (even the dog).