title: Ligature
text: # Ligature
  
  Ligature may refer to:
  
  * Ligature (medicine), a piece of suture used to shut off a blood vessel or other anatomical structure
     * Ligature (orthodontic), used in dentistry
  * Ligature (music), an element of musical notation used especially in the medieval and Renaissance periods
  * Ligature (instrument), a device used to attach a reed to the mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument
  * Ligature (writing), a combination of two or more letters into a single symbol (typography and calligraphy)
  * Ligature (grammar), a morpheme that links two words
  