Patent ID: 8603110

Claim:
An organism tissue suturing apparatus for suturing a penetrated hole formed subcutaneously in a tissue membrane of an organism, comprising: a body part, with a predetermined length, having a rotary portion and can be inserted into said tissue of said organism from said hole; two hollow needle members accommodated in a portion, inside said body part, rearward from said rotary portion; a needle member operation portion for advancing said two hollow needle members toward said rotary portion from a side surface of said body part; and two openings disposed at a rear-most portion of said body part and communicating with lumens of said two hollow needle members, wherein said rotary portion has two needle member receiving portions for receiving a distal end of one of said hollow needle members and that of the other of said hollow needle members respectively pressed out of said body part, a connection duct communicating with said two needle member receiving portions, said rotary portion includes a thread pull-out slit extending from an upper surface thereof and communicating with said two needle member receiving portions and said connection duct, and the thread pull-out slit is formed in a direction to avoid that said thread pull-out slit is located at an advancing direction of a suturing thread along an entire length of the thread pull-out slit, wherein the thread pull-out slit is oblique to a longitudinal axis of said rotary portion; and one continuous duct for a suturing thread is formed to range from one of said two openings to the other of said openings through one of said lumens of one of said two hollow needle members, said connection duct of said rotary portion, and the other of said lumens of the other of said two hollow needle members, when said two needle member receiving portions receive said hollow needle members respectively at a same time.