Meanings
noundeligation (plural deligations)
plural deligations
- medicineA binding up; a bandaging.
Deligation of the Part : and in this case Bandages are to be made of softer and broader Linen than we use in Fractures without a Wound
1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC
Origin
Compare French déligation.
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