Assertion: suture buttress | /r/HasProperty | inserted into a bone tunnel
Facets:
value: spring outward to engage
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: The tabs are resiliently deformable and may be recessable within cut-outs formed in the outer surface of the suture buttress, allowing the tabs to deform as the suture buttress slides into a bone tunnel in a first direction when inserted into a bone tunnel.
text: Once the suture buttress 200 has been inserted into a bone tunnel, the tabs 240, previously recessed in cut-out 228, spring outward to engage or penetrate into the inner surface of the bone tunnel, which typically includes low density trabecular bone and soft marrow.
text: When a suture buttress of the invention is inserted into a curved bone tunnel, such as a bone tunnel produced by rasp 290, the buttress preferably extends substantially through the tunnel to prevent a suture from damaging the inner walls of the curved portion of the tunnel.