The act of binding or tying up, especially in medical contexts; the process of applying ligatures to blood vessels or tissues during surgery.
From de- (intensive) plus ligation (from Latin ligare, to bind), with the noun suffix -tion, creating a formal medical term for the surgical procedure of binding.
Deligation was once a common surgical technique before modern clamps and sutures became standard—surgeons would delicate blood vessels with actual thread to stop bleeding, a technique that's thousands of years old and still used today in certain procedures.
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