Definition of Catguts

1. Noun. (plural of catgut) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Catguts

1. catgut [n] - See also: catgut

Lexicographical Neighbors of Catguts

catfighting
catfights
catfish
catfisher
catfisherman
catfishermen
catfishers
catfishes
catfishlike
catflap
catflaps
catfood
catgirl
catgirls
catgut
catguts (current term)
catharpin
catharping
catharpings
catharpins
catharses
catharsis
cathartic
cathartical
cathartically
catharticals
cathartick
cathartics
cathartid
cathartin

Literary usage of Catguts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1905)
"catguts—Method of Disinfection with Benzol. ... recommends the following method of disinfecting catguts: The ..."

2. The Pentateuch According to the Talmud: Genesis: with a Talmudical Commentary by Paul Isaac Hershon, Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones (1883)
"Its two horns are formed into two trumpets; its two thigh-bones into two flutes; its skin into a drum; its thicker catguts into strings for lyres ..."

3. Therapeutic Gazette (1894)
"As to the tensile strength of the catgut prepared by the different methods, all the disinfected catguts were weaker than raw gut. ..."

4. Transactions of the Society, Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of by Society of Arts (Great Britain, Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1825)
"... the bottom of the sector is turned circularly with two grooves on the inside, for catguts, and it may be considered as a part of a large bevel-wheel, ..."

5. Gynecological Operations: Including Non-operative Treatment and Minor Gynecology by Henri Albert Charles Antoine Hartmann, tr Douglas William Sibbald (1913)
"He brings into apposition its borders with catguts passed on a strongly curved ... One or two extra catguts between the cutaneous and vaginal sutures, ..."

6. Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte in der Lehre von den Pathogenen by Paul von Baumgarten (1901)
"Die Desinfection durch Hineinlegen des catguts in verschiedene Lösungen verursacht einen grossen Verlust an Festigkeit. ..."

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