The lack of stitching or stapling implies that procedures for applying glue-treated patches are potentially considerably less invasive than the alternatives.
Staplers are also used in vertical banded gastroplasty surgery (popularly known as stomach stapling).
The advent of endoscopic stapling was also a major advance so that complicated procedures such as pulmonary lobectomy could be performed safely.
He causes a disruption and when the manager threatens to phone the police he tells him to do so before stapling him in the hand.
At work, she takes great delight in pestering her boss, at one time stapling all his possessions to his desk (including the stapler itself).
Temporary greenhouse domes have been constructed by stapling plastic sheeting onto a dome constructed from one-inch square beams.
By fifth grade the young artist was already stapling together homemade comics to show to his friends.
In fact, he said they would like office equipment, such as a filing cabinet and a stapling machine for papers, art materials, a microscope and an atlas.