As you suit up, for work or perhaps a summer wedding, you might notice a small detail as you button up your jacket — a rogue buttonhole near the notch of the lapel. The buttonless buttonhole is ...

Take a look at the placket on your favorite shirt, the part that has all the buttons. There’s a good chance that most of the holes are stitched vertically. But if you look carefully, you might notice ...

Buttonhole cannulation is associated with a higher risk for vascular access-related infection than rope-ladder cannulation in patients on in-center hemodialysis, according to a published study.

Researchers at St Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Canada, have reported on a modified buttonhole cannulation technique involving multiple cannulators, for use in chronic hemodialysis patients with ...

“Buttonhole” is easy to pin down as a noun referring to the slit or loop through which a button is passed to fasten something, but its shift to a verb meaning “to detain in conversation” requires some ...