The word 'ligature' is correct and is commonly used in written English.
It can be used to describe a physical binding or connection between two things, or it can refer to a symbol or character formed by combining two or more letters together, such as "æ" or "fi." Example: The surgeon used a ligature to tie off the blood vessels and remove the appendix safely. In old manuscripts, it was common to see ligatures used in place of individual letters, making it difficult for modern readers to decipher the text.
A postmortem examination found that she had suffered blunt force trauma to the head, possibly caused by punches, and compression to the neck, either from a ligature or hands.
As evidence grows that the killer murdered women with his hands, rather than with a ligature, leaving no other sign of injury, it now appears almost certain that the victims were in some kind of drug-induced stupor before they died.
The idea is that this will loosen the inner-ring-road ligature that surrounds the city centre, and encourage pedestrians.But some civic-minded Brummies are worried that in their latest plans for rebuilding the city, the city fathers may be looking back to the giantism of the 1960s, rather than replicating the more successful small-scale developments around the city's rejuvenated canals.
That will allow clots to be manufactured deliberately for example, to cut off the blood supply to a tumour.The upshot will, if all goes well, be yet another way to avoid the surgeon's knife: an internal ligature that can be switched on or off using light and thus another diminution of the surgeon's trade.
(For more on ligature notation in the context of music history, see musical notation: Evolution of Western staff notation).
Hales tied a ligature around the neck of a frog and cut off its head.
Freed from syllabic considerations, the grouping of notes into ligatures took on rhythmic significance, specific groupings representing short, repeated patterns called rhythmic modes: A ligature did not yet have a single, unvarying meaning.
The mouthpiece, usually of ebonite (a hard rubber), has a slotlike opening in one side over which a single reed, made from natural cane, is secured by a screw clip, or ligature, or (in earlier times and still often in Germany) by string lapping.
The early notation of the time grouped individual pitches within compound symbols known as ligatures, and the intended rhythms were indicated by standardized ligature patterns rather than by individualized note shapes.
The knot derived its name from its surgical use in tying a ligature around a cut artery.
Or they might tie a ligature — a rope, towel, dog leash, scarf — around the player's neck, tightening it until he's nearly unconscious.
