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Ligature

noun
1.
(music) a group of notes connected by a slur.
2.
Character consisting of two or more letters combined into one.
3.
A metal band used to attach a reed to the mouthpiece of a clarinet or saxophone.
4.
Thread used by surgeons to bind a vessel (as to constrict the flow of blood).
5.
Something used to tie or bind.  Synonym: binder.
6.
The act of tying or binding things together.  Synonym: tying.





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"Ligature" Quotes from Famous Books



... undulating shape issued from the hole in the rock, felt about his body, lashed round his ribs like a cord, and fixed itself there. There was sufficient light for Gilliatt to see the repulsive forms which had entangled themselves about him. A fourth ligature, but this one swift as an arrow, darted towards ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Volume V. • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
... contraction of the scar tissue around it. As a sinus will persist until the obstacle to closure of the original abscess is removed, it is necessary that this should be sought for. It may be a foreign body, such as a piece of dead bone, an infected ligature, or a bullet, acting mechanically or by keeping up discharge, and if the body is removed the sinus usually heals. The presence of a foreign body is often suggested by a mass of redundant granulations at the mouth ...
— Manual of Surgery - Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. • Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles
... uneasily; "but don't be longer than you can help," and he caught hold of Billjim's hand and remained like that, quiet and sensible, while Frenchy put a ligature round the injured limb and bandaged it up as well as ...
— Fifty-Two Stories For Girls • Various
... be got, take a handkerchief, make a cord bandage of it, and tie a knot in the middle; the knot acts as a compress, and should be placed over the artery, while the two ends are to be tied around the thumb. Observe always to place the ligature between the wound and the heart. Putting your finger into a bleeding wound, and making pressure until a surgeon arrives, ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous
... ligature, which should be its umbilical cord connecting them with divinity, is rather like that thread which the accomplices of Cylon held in their hands when they went abroad from the temple of Minerva, the other ...
— A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers • Henry David Thoreau


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