EXTRACTION
\ɛkstɹˈakʃən], \ɛkstɹˈakʃən], \ɛ_k_s_t_ɹ_ˈa_k_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of EXTRACTION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the act of pulling out (as a tooth); "the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction"
By Princeton University
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the act of pulling out (as a tooth); "the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.
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Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.
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That which is extracted; extract; essence.
By Oddity Software
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The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.
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Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.
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That which is extracted; extract; essence.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. The pulling out, as of a tooth. 2. The removal of the active portion of a drug, the making of an extract.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Act of extracting or drawing out; derivation from a stock or family; birth; lineage; that which is extracted.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The act of extracting; derivation from a stock or family; lineage; birth; the operation of drawing essences, &c., from a substance. The extraction of roots, the operation of finding the root of a given number or quantity.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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The act of removing an extraneous substance from any part of the body. Thus, a splinter is said to be extracted. It is also applied to the removal of certain parts. The cataract is said to be extracted; a tooth is extracted, when carious, &c.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A drawing out, as of a tooth, a hair, the crystalline lens, a foreign body, etc.; in obstetrics, the manual or instrumental removal of the fetus, especially by the pelvic pole; in pharmacy, the process of making an extract. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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