surgical gut


gut

 [gut] 1. intestine.2. the primordial digestive tube, consisting of the foregut, midgut, and hindgut.3. surgical gut.chromic gut (chromicized gut) surgical gut treated with a chromic salt to increase its resistance to absorption in tissues.surgical gut an absorbable sterile strand prepared from collagen derived from healthy mammals, used for sutures" >absorbable sutures. It was originally prepared from the submucous layer of the intestines of sheep. Called also catgut.