[f. LIGATUNE sb.] trans. To bind with a ligature or bandage; spec. in Surg. to tie up (an artery, etc.).
1716–20. Lett. Mist’s Jrnl. (1722), I. 297. All Things were prepared, her Leg ligatured, and … plunged in the warm Bath.
a. 1734. North, Lives (1826), III. 43. Goat skins … blown full and ligatured, are put under the corners that appear most to sink.
1878. T. Bryant, Pract. Surg. (1879), II. 19. A wounded artery or vein should be ligatured above and below the wound.
1882. Carpenter, in Standard, 28 Sept., 3/3. The way in which infants were clothed and ligatured.
1896. Treves, Syst. Surg., I. 217. One does not require to ligature many vessels in a wound now that we have such excellent pressure forceps.
fig. 1821. Tales of my Landlord (New Ser.), Witch of Glas Llyn, II. 194. By ligaturing his energies and cooling his friends, prudence would have ruined the cause which rashness saved.
Hence Ligatured ppl. a.
1859. Nat. Encycl., I. 150. The ligatured vessel.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VI. 298. A ligatured artery.
