ligator
English
Etymology
ligate + -or
Noun
ligator (plural ligators)
- A surgical instrument for ligating, or for placing and fastening a ligature.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ligator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- goitral, trialog
Latin
Verb
ligātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of ligō
References
- ligator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)