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Webster 1913 Edition
Quilled
Quilled
,Adj.
Furnished with quills; also, shaped like quills.
“A sharp-quilled porcupine.” Shak.
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.