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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

Officials said it wasn’t allowed because masks were a ligature risk, she 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

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

They flaunt their learning but revel in the loose-fitting ligatures of speech and thought.

From The Guardian Sep. 21, 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

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

Another drake was castrated on August 8, 1909: only the left testis was removed, the other being ligatured.

From Hormones and Heredity by J. T. Cunningham

A larger vessel may be taken up with the artery forceps and ligatured, or the hæmorrhage stopped by torsion.

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

Romic, rō′mik, n. a phonetic notation devised by Henry Sweet, based upon the original Roman values of the letters, supplemented by turned and ligatured letters and diagraphs—in part a recasting of Ellis's Glossic.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

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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