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CIDE DICTIONARY

quilled, a.

Furnished with quills; also, shaped like quills. Shak. [1913 Webster]

Quilled suture (Surg.), a variety of stitch in which the threads after being passed deeply through the edges of a wound are secured about two quills or bodies of similar shape, in order to produce a suitable degree of pressure.

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