ligature
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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
But it took 34 years of scientific advancement to link microscopic fibers found on the boy’s shirt to a ligature that investigators located at the couple’s home, a sheriff said.
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
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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
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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
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
Acting upon this idea, he ligatured his patient’s femoral artery in the lower part of its course in the thigh, in the fibrous sheath enclosing the space since known as “Hunter’s canal.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various
A small traumatic aneurism was found on the brachial artery, and the vessel was ligatured above it.
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
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
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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