cerclage

n.

1. The use of an encircling wire loop or ring to bring together the ends of an obliquely fractured bone or the fragments of a broken patella.tiring
2. The use of an encircling silicone band around the sclera of the eye to correct detachment of the retina.
3. The placement of a nonabsorbable suture around a functionally incompetent uterine cervix.