Extracapsular :: Extracapsular (a.) Situated outside of a capsule, esp. outside the capsular ligament of a joint..

Extract :: Extract (v. t.) To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger..

Extract :: Extract (v. t.) To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6..

Extract :: Extract (v. t.) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book..

Extract :: Extract (n.) That which is extracted or drawn out.

Extract :: Extract (n.) A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation..

Extract :: Extract (n.) A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue; essence; as, extract of beef; extract of dandelion; also, any substance so extracted, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained; as, quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark..

Extract :: Extract (n.) A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract. See Abstract, n., 4..

Extract :: Extract (n.) A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle.

Extract :: Extract (n.) Extraction; descent.

Extract :: Extract (n.) A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution..

Extractable :: Extractable (a.) Alt. of Extractibl.

Extracted :: Extracted (imp. & p. p.) of Extrac.

Extractible :: Extractible (a.) Capable of being extracted.

Extractiform :: Extractiform (a.) Having the form, appearance, or nature, of an extract..

Extracting :: Extracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Extrac.

Extraction :: Extraction (n.) 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..

Extraction :: Extraction (n.) Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.

Extraction :: Extraction (n.) That which is extracted; extract; essence.

Extractive :: Extractive (a.) Capable of being extracted.

Extractive :: Extractive (a.) Tending or serving to extract or draw out.

Extractive :: Extractive (n.) Anything extracted; an extract.

Extractive :: Extractive (n.) A chemical principle once supposed to exist in all extracts.

Extractive :: Extractive (n.) Any one of a large class of substances obtained by extraction, and consisting largely of nitrogenous hydrocarbons, such as xanthin, hypoxanthin, and creatin extractives from muscle tissue..

Extractor :: Extractor (n.) One who, or that which, extracts.

Extractor :: Extractor (n.) A forceps or instrument for extracting substances.

Extractor :: Extractor (n.) A device for withdrawing a cartridge or spent cartridge shell from the chamber of the barrel.

Goulards Extract :: Goulards extract () An aqueous solution of the subacetate of lead, used as a lotion in cases of inflammation. Goulard's cerate is a cerate containing this extract..

Hydro-extractor :: Hydro-extractor (n.) An apparatus for drying anything, as yarn, cloth, sugar, etc., by centrifugal force; a centrifugal..

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