RETRACTION
\ɹɪtɹˈakʃən], \ɹɪtɹˈakʃən], \ɹ_ɪ_t_ɹ_ˈa_k_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of RETRACTION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american 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
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The act of withdrawing something advanced, stated, claimed, or done; declaration of change of opinion; recantation.
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The state or condition of a part when drawn back, or towards the center of the body.
By Oddity Software
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The act of withdrawing something advanced, stated, claimed, or done; declaration of change of opinion; recantation.
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The state or condition of a part when drawn back, or towards the center of the body.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
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State of a part, when drawn towards the centre of the body or backwards; - as retraction of the testicles. Sometimes it is used synonymously with shortening or drawing up; as in retraction of the thigh.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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