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ligation

[lahy-gey-shuhn]

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noun

the act of ligating, especially of surgically tying up a bleeding artery.

anything that binds or ties up; ligature.

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Origin:
1590–1600; < Late Latin ligātiōn- (stem of ligātiō), equivalent to Latin ligāt(us) (see ligate) + -iōn- -ion

Related forms

lig·a·tive

[lig-uh-tiv] , adjective

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Ligation is always a great word to know.

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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World English Dictionary

ligate (ˈlaɪɡeɪt)

—vb
	(tr) to tie up or constrict (something) with a ligature

[C16: from Latin ligātus, from ligāre to bind]

li'gation

—n

ligative

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

ligation

1590s, from L. ligationem, noun of action from ligare "to bind" (see ligament).

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Medical Dictionary

ligation li·ga·tion (lī-gā'shən)
n.