ligate

American  

[lahy-geyt] / ˈlaɪ geɪt /

verb (used with object)

ligated, ligating

1. to bind with or as if with a ligature; tie up (a bleeding artery or the like).

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ligate British  

/ ˈlɪɡətɪv, ˈlaɪɡeɪt /

verb

1. (tr) to tie up or constrict (something) with a ligature

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Other Word Forms

• ligation noun
• ligative adjective

Etymology

Origin of ligate

1590–1600; < Latin ligātus (past participle of ligāre to tie, bind); -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Spliceosomes bind to the signals that mark the exon/intron border to remove the introns and ligate the exons together.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Braman did not find it necessary to ligate, but was able to check the hemorrhage with lint and persulphate of iron, in powder, with pressure.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

He may ligate, that is to say, tie off, the tubes that connect with one testis, or the other, or both; he may not ligate at all.

From The Goat-gland Transplantation As Originated and Successfully Performed by J. R. Brinkley, M. D., of Milford, Kansas, U. S. A., in Over 600 Operations Upon Men and Women by Flower, Sydney Blanshard

Secondary hæmorrhage is much more difficult to arrest on account of the friable state of the tissues, and it may be necessary to ligate the lingual or even the external carotid in the neck.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

Among the Islanders they sometimes ligate the prepuce so that it drops off.

From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Remondino, Peter Charles