deligation
English edit
Etymology edit
Compare French déligation.
Noun edit
deligation (plural deligations)
- (surgery) A binding up; a bandaging.
- 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:
- 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
References edit
“deligation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.