Definitions of extraction

1. the act of pulling out ( as a tooth); " the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction"

2. 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.

3. Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.

4. That which is extracted; extract; essence.

5. The act of taking out; descent.

6. Act of extracting or drawing out; derivation from a stock or family; birth; lineage; that which is extracted.

7. Act of drawing out; lineage.

8. The act of extracting.

9. That which is extracted.

10. Lineage.

11. Extractor.

12. 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.

13. The act of drawing out or from; birth; lineage; descent.