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.
any bracket, especially one of brick or stone, usually of slight extent. a short horizontal timber supporting a girder. to set (bricks, stones, etc.) so as to form a corbel or corbels (usually followed by out). to support by means of a corbel or corbels.