ligature

The prosecution said the existence of "fixed potential ligature points" amounted to breaches of safety laws.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2024

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

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

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

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

Treatment.—Warts may be removed with the scissors, twisted off with the fingers, or ligatured by means of a rubber band or horsehair.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

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

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