Surgical Staplers. Stapler, Surgical . Staplers, Surgical . Surgical Stapler . Fastening devices composed of steel-tantalum alloys used to close operative wounds, especially of the skin, which minimizes infection by not introducing a foreign body that would connect external and internal regions of the body. (From Segen, Current Med Talk, 1995) . 0.97
Surgical Stapling. Stapling, Surgical . Staplings, Surgical . Surgical Staplings . A technique of closing incisions and wounds, or of joining and connecting tissues, in which staples are used as sutures. . 0.91