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The ampersand is an ancient Roman symbol derived from the ligature or combination into one character of the e and t in the Latin et, meaning and.
Exactly a week later he was found suspended by a ligature in his prison cell.
If bony tissue is not palpable, the application of a ligature around the pedicle allows the digit to fall off.
Mrs Clark then heard cries for help from neighbours who had found her son hanging by a ligature from a porch outside his home.
Frowning intently, he unwinds his orange turban, knots it in a ligature around his right biceps, and starts pumping his arm.
The ovary was grasped with a hemostat, a ligature was placed around the oviduct and blood vessels, and the ovary was removed.
Her hands were tied together so tightly that the ligature was cutting into the skin.
The second stage involves placing a deeper and more precise ligature at the base of the lesion.
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.
A typical rodent model of chronic pain involves tying a temporary ligature around the sciatic nerve.
The 48-year-old had suffered appalling head injuries and also had a ligature around her neck.
In particular, they are questioning a fracture on the right side of Shipman's neck, which they claim is not consistent with being caused by the knot of the ligature.
He had been strangled with a ligature and his wrists were tied.
At windswept Dens, he has a near-death experience when he is almost throttled by his own comb-over, 18-inch strands entwining in the gale to form a deadly ligature.
The ligature around his neck corresponded to a fragment of ligature still attached to the shower curtain.
He had scars on his stomach and buttocks, and ligature indentations on his wrists.
Haemorrhoid ligature. One or two small rubber bands are attached around the base of an internal haemorrhoid in order to cut blood flow.
She then wrapped a ligature tightly around her neck, cutting off her air flow.
If sheets overlap each other, they shall be tightened at least three times transversally, one ligature securing each overlapping sheet.
The alternative of tying the damaged vessel with a ligature had been employed by various surgeons dating back to Celsus, a Roman medical author in the first century ad.
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The plan adopted by Chassaignac was to pedunculate the piles by tying a ligature around the base and drawing them down.
The aneurism was cured by ligation of the vein above and below the communication and proximal ligature of the popliteal artery.
When going to bleed at the ankle the ligature is to be applied at the knee.
When a ligature makes its way into the bladder it will set up cystitis and serve as a nucleus for a vesical calculus.
The first occurrence of Phoebus was rendered with an oe ligature in the original.
The aneurism was of the third part of the axillary artery, and a ligature was applied at the lower margin of the pectoralis minor.
A polyp is either cut off or its pedicle bound with a ligature, and it is allowed to shrivel.
In incipient cases the tubercles might be as readily absorbed as catgut ligature, and the germs, if any, fall to phagocytic prey.
The reposition of the cord may be effected by the hand, or by means of an elastic catheter and ligature.
He should not trust to the pressure of a tourniquet, but secure it at once by ligature.
The fate of this tissue and of the ligature has been the subject of much speculation.
To prevent any injury, the ligature should be brought away first, and then the catheter.
Hemorrhage was prevented by pressure, by the binding on of burnt wool firmly, and by the ligature of veins and by the cautery.
The spot where it goes under the sartorius is the one selected for the application of the ligature.
When the enucleation is completed the walls of the capsule are carefully examined for oozing vessels which require ligature.
After a surgeon had had a few deaths of this kind he dreaded the ligature.
Here a wounded officer was brought in for whom a ligature was wanted.
The old operation, or ligature of the gluteal artery in the hip.
To illustrate this opinion, his work on the ligature may be taken.
The word manoeuvre is sometimes printed with an oe ligature.
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