Sut′ure-pin con-duct′or.
（Surgical.) An instrument for guiding a pin or wire employed for holding together the edges of a wound, particularly in operations on the lips and face, where it is specially desirable to avoid leaving a conspicuous scar. It consists of a slightly curved needle fixed in a handle, and somewhat enlarged for a half-inch near its point. Its extremity is beveled off to a sharp point and perforated on the concave side. The edges of the wound having been brought together, the needle is passed through them with one band, and the pin or a soft iron or silver wire is engaged by its point in the perforation at the end of the conductor, and held there while the conductor is withdrawn, thus compelling the pin to follow the course of the conductor. |
| Suture-needles. |
