abligate

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Definition of abligate

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verb

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 […]”

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

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