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Definition of Purse string
1. Noun. A drawstring used to close the mouth of a purse.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purse String
Literary usage of Purse string
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1914)
"The purse-string is now drawn together and there results a double sphincter which
will guard against any leakage from the stomach. ..."
2. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1908)
"Hessert reported before the Chicago Medical Society three cases of hemorrhage
from the stump following appendectomy with a purse- string suture. ..."
3. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (1902)
"The finger in the rectum now recognized the constriction formed by this purse-string
arrangement, and the flap dissected away was sutured back again in ..."
4. The Technic of Operations Upon the Intestines and Stomach by Alfred Henry Gould (1906)
"THE PURSE-STRING OPERATION. This operation has been developed and improved by
various American surgeons. The originators of the technic were Doyen,1 ..."
5. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists by American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1917)
"purse string tightened bringing the parts into close apposition. FIG. 13.—Anterior
and posterior peritoneum brought together from side to side leaving ..."
6. Therapeutic Gazette (1904)
"The purse-string suture has its main application in blow fractures which are
simple, are extensively comminuted, and are unattended by rapid and great joint ..."
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