Images not to be used by the tobacco industry. Surgical thread from sutured head wound, coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM). The surgical thre

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Images not to be used by the tobacco industry. Surgical thread from sutured head wound, coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM). The surgical thread tying this knot is a mono-filament, non-absorbable thread that was used to stitch a head wound and removed after 7 days. Debris from the skin and area surrounding the wound is still attached to the surgical thread after removal from the stitched site. Magnification: x30 when printed at 10 cm wide.

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Size: 7250px × 4821px
Photo credit: © ANNE WESTON, FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: -, -absorbable, background, black, coloured, debris, false-coloured, knot, medical, medicine, mono-filament, sem, skin, stitches, surgery, surgical, suture, suturing, thread