They used a ligature to tie the pole to the tree. From LearnThat.org.
In addition to being bludgeoned, she had been strangled with a "ligature," the sources said, meaning some type of cord was likely used. From Wordnik.com. [Teen charged with murder in Md.] Reference
Autopsy results identified Ingram's cause of death as strangulation by ligature, meaning she had been choked by some type of object such as a rope or extension cord. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Once the reader figures out the notion of ligature itself thee are all manner of burbling connective pleasures. From Wordnik.com. [Donato Mancini, Ligatures] Reference
The name Contrecoeur appears throughout the text with an oe ligature which is removed for this version. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Pittsburgh] Reference
In addition to being bludgeoned, she had been strangled with a "ligature," or some type of cord, the sources said. From Wordnik.com. [Boy, 14, charged with murder, rape in teacher's death at Md. detention center] Reference
There was one thing in there for me that was a red flag, and that ` s the word "ligature," because 8-year-old girls don ` t use words like that. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 8, 2005] Reference
The CBJ ligature is the crest of the jersey. From Wordnik.com. [USA TODAY Latest news] Reference
That was how the housekeeper had incomprehensibly come upon him -- hanging by some kind of ligature in a closet in the spare bedroom. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
'ligature' with which she was able to choke herself. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
œ, known as a "ligature" (two or more letters joined together). From Wordnik.com. [MSDN Blogs] Reference
If E, Plate 18, bleeds, a ligature applied to the vessel A. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Similarly OEdipus appears once herein without the OE ligature. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Pittsburgh] Reference
Pages 103, 342: Phoebe had an oe ligature in the original book. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference
Wounds of these vessels requiring a ligature to be applied to both ends. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
The popliteal artery is unfavourably circumstanced for the application of a ligature. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
The slacker ligature obstructs the veins only, for the arteries lie deeper and have firmer coats. From Wordnik.com. [Fathers of Biology] Reference
Besides, the ligature is competent to occasion the afflux in question without either pain, or heat, or a vacuum. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
The wax in the cloth will cause the tie to adhere sufficiently to the wood so that no other ligature is required. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference
Cutting into the larynx, from the outside of the neck, to assist respiration, or to remove foreign bodies. ligature. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
“Do you have any idea who might've wanted Marie Poupon-Kennedy to become a victim of ligature strangulation?”. From Wordnik.com. [Aromatherapy] Reference
A ligature I designate as tight or perfect when it so constricts an extremity that no vessel can be felt pulsating beyond it. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
The ligature in this situation will lie between the anastomotic and articular arteries, which freely communicate with each other. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
When she is reduced to a state of perfect asphyxia, apply a ligature to the left ankle, drawing it as tight as the bone will bear. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
Does the blood accumulate below the ligature coming through the veins, or through the arteries, or passing by certain secret pores?. From Wordnik.com. [Fathers of Biology] Reference
Does the blood accumulate below the ligature coming through the veins, or through the arteries, or passing by certain hidden porosities?. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
She flung the blanket off him, and tried with fingers, that only shook and helplessly fumbled now, to bind a ligature above the opened vein. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
And then, wherefore is there neither swelling nor repletion of the veins, nor any sign or symptom of attraction or afflux, above the ligature?. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
The cord is then cut off about one-half an inch from the ligature, and the incision in the scrotum made plenty large in order to insure drainage. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Seeing, therefore, that the moderately tight ligature renders the veins turgid and distended, and the whole hand full of blood, I ask, whence is this?. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Such a ligature we use in amputations to control the flow of blood; and such also are employed in the castration of animals and the ablation of tumours. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Plate 16, in which case no appearance of them will be at all manifested through the usual place of incision made for the ligature of the brachial vessel. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Demonstration of the second proposition -- that the blood enters a limb by the arteries and returns from it by the veins -- is afforded by the effects of a ligature. From Wordnik.com. [Fathers of Biology] Reference
In the latter instances, all afflux of nutriment and heat being prevented by the ligature, we see the testes and large fleshy tumours dwindle, die, and finally fall off. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
If a ligature is to be applied to any part of the arch, it will seldom happen that it can be placed farther than half an inch from some of these principal collateral branches. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
But the arteries, in spite of its pressure, and under the force and impulse of the heart, send on the blood from the internal parts of the body to the parts beyond the ligature. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
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