How to Use ligation in a Sentence

ligation

noun
  • Some of the devices use a ligation method with small rubber bands to cut off a skin tag’s blood supply.
    — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
  • In more severe cases, your provider may tie off the vein (ligation) and then remove it (stripping).
    — Sarah Hudgens, Health, 4 Sep. 2025
  • One common option is banding or rubber band ligation.
    — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The ligation does not contend that officers could or should have known the details about LeRoux’s past.
    — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
  • One of the most popular treatments is rubber band ligation, which can be done in a doctor's office with no bowel prep or anesthesia.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 4 July 2017
  • Tubal Ligation Tubal ligation is a permanent method of birth control.
    — Dawn Stacey, Phd, Lmhc, Verywell Health, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Around two months later, Perry was involved in another incident resulting in still-pending ligation.
    — Ryan Martin, Indianapolis Star, 11 July 2019
  • Tubal ligation or sterilization involves cutting, tying or removing the fallopian tubes to prevent sperm from reaching the eggs.
    — Barbara Mantel, NBC News, 12 Apr. 2024
  • During that tubal pregnancy, Lila very nearly lost her own life in the process — her right fallopian tube ruptured and she was rushed to the hospital for an emergency ligation surgery.
    — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 19 Apr. 2017
  • Tubal ligation, the surgical sterilization surgery for women, can be done with a minimally invasive outpatient surgery.
    — Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Tubal ligation or hysterectomy can also reduce the chance of some types of ovarian cancer, but the ACS says this should only be done when medically necessary.
    — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The Justice Department, which represents the federal government in ligation, declined to comment.
    — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Some Chinese scholars say surgical ligation has not been banned, but discouraged, especially after authorities announced in May that all couples could have three children.
    — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021
  • This includes a technique developed more than a decade ago called seamless ligation of nucleic acids, or Slice, which uses bacterial enzymes to join DNA fragments.
    — WIRED, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Tubal ligation, also known as tube tying, is a medical procedure that involves the tying or snipping of fallopian tubes as a means to stop pregnancy, according to the CDC.
    — Fox News, 30 Aug. 2022
  • This shifting gender pattern resulted from a rising concern about the fitness to parent, with a focus on mothering, as well as the development of a safer, standardized tubal-ligation procedure for sterilizing women.
    — New York Times, 8 June 2022
  • For more severe cases, Orlando says procedures such as rubber band ligation (placing a small band around the base of an internal hemorrhoid to cut off its blood supply) and sclerotherapy (an injection that shrinks the hemorrhoid), may be recommended.
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Simon Gutierrez, a PacifiCorp spokesperson, said the utility has not requested recovery of those costs from ratepayers and is requesting the commission take no action on the filing until the ligation is concluded.
    — Tsicking, oregonlive, 16 June 2023
  • According to her Uighur doctor, her fallopian tubes were cut in the resulting tubal-ligation procedure, making her sterilization irreversible — a common experience for Xinjiang’s minorities.
    — Olivia Enos, National Review, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Tubal ligation and bilateral salpingectomy are surgical procedures (typically outpatient) that will require general anesthesia.
    — Lane Gillespie, SELF, 29 Sep. 2022

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