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abligate

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

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abligate (third-person singular simple present abligates, present participle abligating, simple past and past participle abligated)

  1. (obsolete outside veterinary medicine) To tie up, especially a body part.
    • 1936 April, C. A. Herrick, “Organ Specificity of the Parasite Eimeria tenella”, in Journal of Parasitology, volume 22, number 2, page 226:
      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 []

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