The handling characteristics, including particularly the knot run down, of synthetic absorbable surgical sutures and tissue drag characteristics are improved by a coating of a lubricating film of a bioabsorbable copolymer having polyoxyethylene blocks and polyoxypropylene blocks, and {HEAD ~ which bioabsorbable copolymer} has {TAIL ~ a molecular weight} such that it is pasty to solid at 25° C 
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The handling characteristics , including particularly the knot run down , of synthetic absorbable surgical sutures and tissue drag characteristics are improved by a coating of a lubricating film of a bioabsorbable copolymer having polyoxyethylene blocks and polyoxypropylene blocks , and { HEAD ~ which bioabsorbable copolymer } has { TAIL ~ a molecular weight } such that it is pasty to solid at 25 ° C
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