Definition of "ligating" [ligating]

• Present participle of ligate. (verb)

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• "So they extended each read by five more bases by adding an additional step, namely ligating on an unlabeled five-base fragment before performing the labeled ligation."
• "Finally, the description of the patient ligating their own colonic vein, which is virtually impossible without the artery as well, thus requiring a colon resection from the subsequent ischemia is far more fantasy than any reality."
• "As far as the brackets, the self ligating and the traditional are comparable."