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Surgical stapling
Surgical stapling uses mechanical staplers to cut and seal tissue, remove part of an organ, and create connections between structures; linear and circular devices are routine in gastrointestinal, thoracic, and vascular surgery.
Surgical suture
Surgical suture: sterile single-use thread device holding body tissues together after injury or surgery. Also called stitches, catgut historically; sizes 12-0 to 10; absorbable vs nonabsorbable; Lister's 1865 antisepsis; synthetic era from 1970s Dexon.
Surgical Tampons
Surgical tampons: absorbent cotton, wool, gauze, or gelatin packs (tamponing) placed in wounds or cavities to stop bleeding, deliver antiseptics, or absorb fluid; historic medical use predates menstrual tampons; main hazard is retention.
Surgical Tape
Surgical tape (medical adhesive tape) is a pressure-sensitive tape holding dressings, wound edges, and devices on skin; acrylate and silicone adhesives differ in gentleness, with silicone reducing skin stripping and MARSI risk.
Surgical technologist
Surgical technologist, also called operating room technician or scrub tech: allied health professional maintaining the sterile field and passing instruments during surgery; US CST credential from NBSTSA, ~118,400 US jobs, median pay $64,650 (May 2025).
Surgical tracheostomy
Surgical tracheostomy is an open operation creating a stoma in the neck into the trachea, securing an airway for prolonged ventilation, obstruction, or secretion management.
Surgical treatment of ingrown toenails
Surgical treatment of ingrown toenails (onychocryptosis): partial nail avulsion, phenol or TCA chemical matricectomy, Winograd wedge resection, and Vandenbos procedures; phenolization cuts recurrence versus avulsion alone, while a 2026 meta-analysis favors minimally invasive surgery.
Surgical ventricular reconstruction
Surgical ventricular reconstruction (SVR), most often the Dor procedure, is a cardiac operation that reshapes the scarred left ventricle after a heart attack, usually combined with coronary bypass grafting.
Surgically-Created Structures
Surgically-Created Structures is a Medical Subject Headings descriptor covering organs surgically formed from adjacent tissue to replace tissue that is diseased or surgically removed, distinct from prostheses and implants.
Surgicel
Surgicel (oxidized regenerated cellulose) is Ethicon's sterile absorbable hemostat fabric, introduced 1957/1960, used adjunctively for capillary, venous, and small arterial bleeding; bactericidal, absorbable in weeks, must be removed near bone foramina and nerves.
Surgut GRES-1 power station
Surgut GRES-1 (Сургутская ГРЭС-1) is a large gas-fired power station in Surgut, Western Siberia, the region's first large power station, supplying electricity and heat since 1972 with a capacity of 3333 MW.
Surgut GRES-2 power station
Surgut GRES-2 (Сургутская ГРЭС-2) is a gas-fired thermal power station in Surgut, Russia, opened in 1985 and owned by PJSC Unipro. It is among the largest thermal power plants in the world.
Surgut-Gorky-Polotsk Oil Pipeline
The Surgut-Gorky-Polotsk oil pipeline is a 3,250 km trunk crude pipeline from Surgut in Western Siberia to Polotsk, Belarus, built between 1977 and 1981 and owned by Transneft.
Surgut, Khanty-Mansia
Surgut (Сургут), a city in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra, Russia, on the Ob River; founded 1594, rebuilt as an oil center after the 1957 Salmanov expedition; home to Surgutneftegas and the world's largest gas-fired power station.
Surgutneftegaz
Surgutneftegaz (ПАО «Сургутнефтегаз») is a Russian oil and gas company headquartered in Surgut, led by Vladimir Bogdanov since 1984 and producing 53.7 million tonnes of oil in 2024.
Suricata
Suricata is a free, open-source network threat detection engine that performs intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, and network security monitoring, released in 2010 and owned by the Open Information Security Foundation.
Suriclone
Suriclone (RP 31,264; Suril, Celexane) is a cyclopyrrolone anxiolytic, chemically unrelated to benzodiazepines, that binds benzodiazepine receptor sites allosterically with subnanomolar affinity and was trialed in generalized anxiety disorder.
Surigao Strait
Surigao Strait is a Philippine strait between Leyte, Panaon, Dinagat, and Mindanao linking the Pacific to Leyte Gulf and the Mindanao Sea; a shipping route with 5–6 knot tidal streams and site of the 1944 night battle.
Surikov (Mercurian crater)
Surikov is a 120-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury at 37.1°S, 124.6°W in quadrangle H-12, named by the IAU in 1979 for the Russian painter Vassily Surikov (1848–1916).
Surimi (すり身)
Surimi (すり身) is washed, dewatered minced fish muscle used to make kamaboko and imitation crab. Salt-solubilized myofibrillar proteins form elastic gels on heating; global output about 437,000 metric tons in H1 2025.
Surimono
Surimono (摺物, literally "printed things") are privately published Japanese woodblock prints combining poetry and image, commissioned by Edo-period poetry circles and given as gifts; their lavish printing makes them among the finest woodblock prints.
Surinam (Dutch colony)
Surinam was a Dutch colony in South America, founded by the English in 1651 and ruled by the Netherlands from 1667 until independence as Suriname in 1975.
Suriname
Suriname (Republiek Suriname), a Dutch-speaking republic on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America; smallest independent country on the continent, independent from the Netherlands 25 November 1975, capital Paramaribo, mining-dominated economy, ~93% forest cover, offshore oil from 2028.
Suriname Block 58
Suriname Block 58 is an offshore oil block off Suriname, hosting the GranMorgu project, the country's first offshore oil development, with first oil expected in 2028.
Suriname National Army
The Suriname National Army (Nationaal Leger) is the armed forces of Suriname, a force of about 2,200 to 2,500 personnel under the Ministry of Defense.
Suriname national football team
Suriname national football team, the Natio or Suriboys, Suriname's men's FIFA team run by the SVB, a Concacaf founding member. Never reached a World Cup; reached the 2026 inter-confederation play-offs with Dutch-heritage players under Henk ten Cate.
Surinamese dollar
The Surinamese dollar (SRD) is the currency of Suriname, issued by the Centrale Bank van Suriname. It replaced the Surinamese guilder on 1 January 2004 at 1 dollar per 1,000 guilders.
Surinamese guilder
The Surinamese guilder (Surinaamse gulden, SRG) was the currency of Suriname from 1827 until 2004, when it was replaced by the Surinamese dollar at 1,000 guilders per dollar.
Surinamese Interior War
The Surinamese Interior War (Binnenlandse Oorlog) was a civil war from 1986 to 1992 between the army under Desi Bouterse and Ronnie Brunswijk's Jungle Commando.
Surinamese people
Surinamese people are the inhabitants of Suriname and their diaspora, chiefly in the Netherlands. Main groups: Hindustani (27.4%), Maroon (21.7%), Creole, Javanese, Mixed; Dutch-speaking, multi-religious.