ligature

How To Use ligature In A Sentence

• `There's no sign of a ligature of any sort having been used. A DEAD LIBERTY
• A ligature made from an old sheet and a dressing gown cord were left in the landing and an unusual handwritten note left in the rent book.
• When she is reduced to a state of perfect asphyxy, apply a ligature to the left ankle, drawing it as tight as the bone will bear. The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories
• The claimed derivation is from an obsolete word (in Latin) "feo" = "to bring forth", where the eo became the œ ligature (perhaps because the EO combination really was a single vowel in old english, including runes!) which then became separate letters O and E because of typesetting issues. Pharyngula
• She said death could occur in such a way if a victim had been strangled or if the palm of the hand or a ligature had been pushed against the neck.
• Page 252 upwards and forwards; lay bare the digastric and stylo-hyoid muscles at the bottom of the wound, by means of the point of the director or the forceps and draw them forward with a blunt hook: hold the sites of the incision wide apart, carry the nerve and vein backward with the end of the finger, and cautiously open the sheath of the vessel; and then, with the artery isolated apply the ligature by means of an aneurismal needle. An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
• And then, wherefore is there neither swelling nor repletion of the veins, nor any sign or symptom of attraction or afflux, above the ligature? On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
• If bony tissue is not palpable, the application of a ligature around the pedicle allows the digit to fall off.
• So I think that it is not evidence of an ante-mortem kind of ligature.
• Tourniquets, ligatures, and compression bandages should not be used.