<prompt> In abdominal surgery lembe sutures refers toSingle layer suturingSero muscular suturesAll coat intestinal suturingSkin suturing  <response>: It is used for Bowel anastomosis The word anastomosis comes from the Greek ana, without, and stoma, a mouth, reflecting the join of a tubular viscus bowel or vessel usually aeries after a resection or bypass procedure. Prior to the nineteenth century, intestinal surgery was limited to exteriorisation by means of a stoma, or closure of simple lacerations. Lembe then described his seromuscular suture technique for bowel anastomosis in 1826 Ref: Bailey and love 27th edition Pgno : 97 