abligate
verbEtymology From Latin ab- + ligātus, perfect passive participle of ligāre (“to tie”).
1
To tie up, especially a body part.
Obsolete outside veterinary medicine
- 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:
- Derived terms
- abligation