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ligature

[lig-uh-cher, -choor] / ˈlɪg ə tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər /


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Instead of the classic single ligature, they used a triple ligature approach on the upper left molar of male mice.

From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024

Investigators suspected the Turners from the beginning, based not only on the ligature, but the couple’s behavior.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2024

Another challenge in collecting data: Many of these deaths are misclassified as suicide because the subjects are found with a ligature, Rogg said.

From Fox News ● Sep. 2, 2021

“Little masks with over-the-ear loops could not possibly be a ligature risk,” Callison said.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 11, 2020

Every time he grouped notes together with a ligature, he meant that those notes should be shorter than the others.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

DNA on the gum was consistent with DNA found on the ligatures and Weaver’s body, according to the charging documents.

From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2024

Many of the labels are written in Cyrillic, with its gorgeous top hooks and ligatures and swinging tails.

From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2021

Working on ligatures which will hopefully roll out tomorrow with an option to bypass song cache so the poster will actually update without the ‘?’

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2020

The group estimates there are 350,000 women in Madagascar who can only get family-planning services like implants and tubal ligatures from its mobile clinics.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2018

The system he used, while not as flexible or sophisticated as the one used today, relied on the grouping together of notes with horizontal bars called ligatures.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

Similarly, I have split ligatured characters such as the ligatured "ae" and "oe" frequent in late Latin in particular.

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Montagu Browne

To his surprise he found, on re-examining the antler a week or two later, when the wound around the ligatured artery was healed, that it had regained its warmth, and was still increasing in size.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various

Should either of these stand out with extra prominence from the others, it should be picked up with a pair of forceps, and ligatured with either carbolized gut or silk.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks

The omo-hyoid muscle was therefore divided, and the artery ligatured beneath, in order to ensure against any interference with the sac.

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

Joly, namely, that of ligaturing one of the digital arteries on each affected foot.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks

The experiments of Ancel and Bouin were carried out on rabbits seven to eight weeks old, and consisted in removing one testis, and ligaturing the vas deferens of the other.

From Hormones and Heredity by J. T. Cunningham




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