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
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
I finished listing the muscles of the hand and started in on the ligatures when Arwyl waved me into silence and asked his next question.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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
He tried to laugh, as he glanced down at the wounded arm, which, ligatured about the spear-thrust with a thong, and supported by a rawhide sling, looked strangely blue and swollen.
From Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England
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
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
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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