ligature
C1CEFR level
68/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
A thread or cord tied tightly around a blood vessel or duct to occlude it.
The surgeon secured the bleeding artery with a silk ligature before dividing it.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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