sutures
Fäden
fils
Took not even 10 minutes to get them out. And the doctor was impressed how well the wounds had healed.
However, it’s a pity I only started blogging in 2006. If I think about all the vocabulary I learned in a similar painful way in France, I could fill pages. I remember one of the first words learned in a medical context: mollet (Wade, calf). Good old times…