How to Use ligation in a Sentence
ligation
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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
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Tubal ligation is among the most common forms of permanent birth control in the U.S.
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 27 July 2021
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The ligation does not contend that officers could or should have known the details about LeRoux’s past.
—Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
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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
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Tubal ligation is permanent, and cannot always be reversed.
—Julie Washington, cleveland, 11 July 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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But some research shows that concerns about regret could be overstated: One survey found only about 7 percent of women regretted tube ligation within five years of their operations.
—Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2022
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Around two months later, Perry was involved in another incident resulting in still-pending ligation.
—Ryan Martin, Indianapolis Star, 11 July 2019
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The Justice Department, which represents the federal government in ligation, declined to comment.
—Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2021
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Tubal ligation, the surgical sterilization surgery for women, can be done with a minimally invasive outpatient surgery.
—Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 17 Aug. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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Madrigal v. Quilligan revolved around two fundamental questions: Did obstetricians at County Hospital perform tubal ligations on their patients without proper consent?
—Marcela Valdes, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2016
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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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