- IPA
Brackets and
transcription delimiters. In
writing and typography, a
ligature occurs where two or more
graphemes or
letters are
joined to form a single...
- Look up
ligature in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Ligature may
refer to:
Ligature (medicine), a
piece of
suture used to shut off a
blood vessel or other...
- (lowercase: æ) is a
character formed from the
letters a and e,
originally a
ligature representing the
Latin diphthong ae. It has been
promoted to the status...
- In
surgery or
medical procedure, a
ligature consists of a
piece of
thread (suture) tied
around an
anatomical structure,
usually a
blood vessel, another...
-
mechanism used:
Hanging —
Suspension from a cord
wound around the neck
Ligature strangulation —
Strangulation without suspension using some form of cord-like...
- In the ****anese
writing system kana
ligatures (****anese: 合略仮名, Hepburn: gōryaku-gana) are
ligatures in the kana
writing system, both
hiragana and katakana...
- Minuscule: ȣ) is a
ligature of the Gr****
letters ο and υ
which was
frequently used in
Byzantine m****cripts. This omicron-upsilon
ligature is
still seen today...
- the
logogram &,
representing the
conjunction "and". It
originated as a
ligature of the
letters et—Latin for "and". The term
ampersand is a
corruption of...
- Œ (minuscule: œ) is a
Latin alphabet grapheme, a
ligature of o and e. In
medieval and
early modern Latin, it was used in
borrowings from Gr**** that originally...
- The
Stannius Ligature was an
experimental procedure that
robustly illustrated impulse conduction in the frog heart. This
procedure decisively demonstrated...
