Re: Catgut (was: Tying vicryl)

From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse (el@lisse.NA)
Fri Apr 13 02:16:48 2001


At 08:44 12.04.01 -0500, Kevin D. Dew wrote: >"cat"gut is originally from goat intesine. I'm told that "cat" is from
>"kid" i.e.goat (Germanic type language?) I do not know this for a fact,
>just something that I heard.

What is so difficult with looking this rubbish up on a decent web engine? (Put in Catgut and Salle as words).

Cat comes from the English word cat.

Kid is not a German word.

el





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