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EXTRACTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The action of taking out something (especially using effort or force)
Example:
the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("extraction" is a kind of...):
remotion; removal (the act of removing)
Derivation:
extract (remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Properties attributable to your ancestry
Example:
he comes from good origins
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("extraction" is a kind of...):
ancestry; derivation; filiation; lineage (inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "extraction"):
full blood (descent from parents both of one pure breed)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("extraction" is a kind of...):
action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "extraction"):
decoction ((pharmacology) the extraction of water-soluble drug substances by boiling)
dehydration; desiccation; drying up; evaporation (the process of extracting moisture)
elution (the process of extracting one material from another by washing with a solvent to remove adsorbed material from an adsorbent (as in washing of loaded ion-exchange resins to remove captured ions); used to obtain uranium ions)
infusion (the process of extracting certain active properties (as a drug from a plant) by steeping or soaking (usually in water))
beneficiation; mineral dressing; mineral extraction; mineral processing; ore dressing; ore processing (crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or waste by any of a variety of techniques)
Derivation:
extract (extract by the process of distillation)
extract (separate (a metal) from an ore)
Context examples:
A cell wall fraction of bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) obtained by menthol extraction with immunomodulating properties and potential use in cancer immunotherapy.
(Methanol Extraction Residue of BCG, NCI Thesaurus)
Procedures for extraction and collection of viral vectors from cultured cells.
(Final Harvest and Pooling of Viral Vectors, NCI Thesaurus)
The processed sample is subjected to phenol/chloroform extraction and the DNA in the aqueous phase is analyzed using next-generation sequencing techniques.
(FAIRE-Seq, NCI Thesaurus)
The extraction of placenta tissue containing the chorionic villi from the maternal uterus in early pregnancy to screen for fetal genetic defects.
(Chorionic Villus Sampling, NCI Thesaurus)
Absence of crystalline lens totally or partially from field of vision, from any cause except after cataract extraction.
(Aphakia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Forests in south India that had become degraded due to excessive fuelwood extraction recovered after villagers living nearby switched to biogas for their cooking fuel needs, says a study.
(Shift to biogas helps revive forests, SciDev.Net)
Standard procedures will be used for all steps, including informed consent, clinical data collection, sample collection, pathology review, biomolecule extractions, quality control, laboratory data collection, and biomolecule distribution.
(Biospecimen Core Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
An occupation that involves the extraction of asbestos from naturally-occurring silicate deposits.
(Asbestos Mining, NCI Thesaurus)
A class of professional or vocational positions of employment that involve construction or extraction.
(Construction and Extraction Occupations, NCI Thesaurus)
It is predominantly a disease of older white women of northern European extraction, but it is seen in all ages and ethnic groups.
(Ovarian Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
