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ligation

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ligation [lī′gā·shən]
(medicine)
Surgical tying of vessels or ducts with a ligature.
(cell and molecular biology)
The process of joining two adjacent nitrogenous bases separated by a nick in one strand of a deoxyribonucleic acid duplex or of two linear nucleic acid molecules.
Formation of a phosphodiester bond to join adjacent nucleotides in the same nucleic acid chain.


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The patient was successfully treated with IJV ligation after conservative therapy had failed.
The company estimates that there are approximately 122,000 surgical tubal ligation procedures performed in Canada each year.
In time, this ligation technique will help scientists probe enzyme function.
 
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