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extraction Dentistry a. the act or an instance of extracting a tooth or teeth b. a tooth or teeth extracted extraction [ik′strak·shən] (chemistry) A method of separation in which a solid or solution is contacted with a liquid solvent (the two being essential mutually insoluble) to transfer one or more components into the solvent. (medicine) The act or process of pulling out a tooth. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| When the American enters on the history of his ancestors, he is driven, after some ten or twelve generations at most, to seek refuge in a country in Europe; whereas exactly the reverse is the case with us, our most remote extraction being American, while our more recent construction and education have taken place in Europe. I accordingly engaged a room in the house of a lady of pure French extraction and education, who supplements the shortcomings of an income insufficient to the ever-growing demands of the Parisian system of sense-gratification, by providing food and lodging for a limited number of distinguished strangers. Ned looked around for a reason for this, and observed a man, evidently of Spanish extraction, passing them as he paced up and down the deck. |
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