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abligate en · VERB

Etymology

From Latin ab- + ligātus, perfect passive participle of ligāre (“to tie”).

Meanings

1. (qualifier:obsolete outside veterinary medicine) To tie up, especially a body part.
   • In order to simulate small intestinal conditions in the cecal pouches, the distal end of a cecal pouch of fourteen chickens, three to four months old, was surgically united to the small intestine and the intestine abligated just posterior to the union […] 1936 April, C. A. Herrick, “Organ Specificity of the Parasite Eimeria tenella”, in Journal of Parasitology, volume 22, number 2, page 226:

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