In abdominal surgery lembe sutures refers to

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