If a divided artery is ligated at its cut end, the tension of the ligature is usually sufficient to rupture the inner and middle coats, which curl up within the lumen, the outer coat alone being held in the grasp of the ligature.
The treatment consists in enlarging the external wound to permit of the damaged vessel being ligated above and below the puncture.
They may be shelled out, or ligated at the base and cut off, according to circumstances.
When associated, as it frequently is, with mental deficiency or the occurrence of fits, the cyst may be tapped or its neck ligated (Hogarth Pringle).
In the neck, it is liable to be divided or ligated in the course of operations for the removal of malignant or tuberculous glands, for goitre, or for ligation of the common carotid.
The hemorrhage ceased spontaneously, and at the time of report, the man presented the symptoms of one who had had his carotid ligated (facial atrophy on one side, no pulse, etc.
The spleen protruded, and the protruding part was ligated by a silver wire, one-half of the organ sloughing off; the patient recovered.
Green practiced rapid removal of the tumor and ligated the bleeding vessels later.
The next morning he was carried to the surgeons who ligated the large vessels, and extirpated the spleen; the man recovered and was soon able to do duty.
The broad ligaments and Fallopian tubes were ligated on either side, the tumor turned out, the thick, heavy pedicle transfixed and ligated, and the enormous growth cut away.
Walters saw the woman twenty-one hours afterward, andligated and severed the protruding omentum.
The cord of the fourth child was so short that it had to be ligated in the vagina.
This wound received no medical attention for forty-eight hours, when the protruding portion of lung was thought to be dead, and was ligated and cut off; it weighed about three ounces.
They first ligated the cord, which fell off in nine days, and then separated the twins with the bistoury.
Fergusson found the spleen hanging from the wound and ligated it.
The cartilages were ligated with heavy silk, and the hemorrhage checked by ligature and by packing gauze in the inter-chondral spaces.
It was a bicephalous child that lived thirty-two hours after he had ligated one of its heads.
Edward Martin of Philadelphia found active living spermatozoa in a testicle that had been ligated off for twenty years.
If the blood-vessels in the cord are ligated or cut with the vas, the testicle will atrophy; if the vas alone is operated upon, the testicle is not injured.
Once the infection of the navel cord has set in, the cord should not be ligated but should be washed in a disinfectant solution and a veterinarian called for the subsequent treatment.
When varicose veins exist superficially and threaten to produce inconvenience, they may be ligated above and below and thus obliterated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ligated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
