| Cotton synonyms | Raw cotton, Purified cotton, Absorbent Cotton |
| Viscose Rayon synonyms | Viscose Rayon, Viscose, Rayon, Regenerated Cellulose |
| Vegetable fibres USES | filtering medium and in surgical dressings |
| Flax Uses | Utilized as raw material for high-quality paper such as currency notes and cigarette paper |
| Hemp Uses | Used to make jeans |
| Chemical Wood Pulp Uses | Used as Cellulose wadding (thick lining) |
| Wool Uses | Odor absorbent
gives elasticity and warmth |
| Silk Uses | Used pharmaceutically in the preparation of sutures, sieves and ligatures |
| Viscose Rayon Uses | to manufacture fabrics, surgical dressings, absorbent wool, enzyme and cellophane |
| Cellulose Acetate | component of plastic splinting bandage |
| Alginates Uses | absorbable haemostatic surgical dressings
internal – neurosurgery
external – burns, skin graft sites
bacterial swabs |
| 1 Synthetic fibers Uses
2 Polyesters: Terylene Uses
3 Polypropylene Uses | 1 Sutures
2 sutures (prep of artificial grafts)
3 catheters, sutures |
