ligature
noun
the act of binding or tying up.
ligatured
Example Sentences
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Their concentrated, ligatured and rigorous application had a jarring effect: In order to truly behold the work, we had to step away from it, to distance ourselves.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
If this cannot be done, the main artery of the limb must be exposed by dissection at the most accessible point between the wound and the heart, and there ligatured.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
In a recorded case in which pregnancy occurred after each tube was ligatured in two places, and then divided with a knife, a patent stump was no doubt left.
From The Fertility of the Unfit by Rutherford Waddell
Similarly, I have split ligatured characters such as the ligatured "ae" and "oe" frequent in late Latin in particular.
Much clot was removed, and both artery and vein, which were found divided in the adductor canal, were ligatured.
From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by George Henry Makins
