#ligation  tying a duct or blood vessel with a ligature (as in surgery to prevent bleeding)
  supertype:  tying  the act of tying things together
  subtype:  tubal_ligation__tuballigation  a sterilization procedure with women; both Fallopian tubes are tied in two places and the tubes removed in between the ligations

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