tubal ligation

1. 1.

   a sterilization procedure with women; both Fallopian tubes are tied in two places and the tubes removed in between the ligations

   Broaderligationsurgical contraception

Questions about tubal ligation

What does tubal ligation mean?

tubal ligation means "a sterilization procedure with women; both Fallopian tubes are tied in two places and the tubes removed in between the ligations".

Is tubal ligation a common word?

tubal ligation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.