0 a kind of cord made from the intestines of sheep etc, used for violin strings etc. -- struna (vyrobená ze střev)
This treatment produces roughly twice the stitch-holding time of plain catgut, but greater tissue inflammation occurs.
Fast catgut suture is heat-treated to give even more rapid absorption in the body.
With a sharply curved needle and catgut, he closed the wound by continuous suture, overcoming great difficulty caused by the heart pulsations.
The strings themselves were originally made of catgut.
Again the strings are its striking feature, being either made of thick cotton strings or more popularly of catgut, giving it a more bass timbre.
Later lines were constructed from horse hair or silk thread, with catgut leaders.
He also invented a new type of catgut, which came into mass production in 1901.
There is a twelve-turn fusee cut for catgut.
