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Retractor :: Retractor (n.) A bandage to protect the soft parts from injury by the saw during amputation.

Retraction :: Retraction (n.) The state or condition of a part when drawn back, or towards the center of the body..

Saccate :: Saccate (a.) Of or pertaining to the Saccata, a suborder of ctenophores having two pouches into which the long tentacles can be retracted..

Withdrawal :: Withdrawal (n.) The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.

Retractate :: Retractate (v. t.) To retract; to recant.

Recant :: Recant (v. i.) To revoke a declaration or proposition; to unsay what has been said; to retract; as, convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant..

Retractible :: Retractible (a.) Retractable.

Retract :: Retract (v. i.) To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation..

Withdrawer :: Withdrawer (n.) One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts..

Withdraw :: Withdraw (v. t.) To take back; to recall or retract; as, to withdraw false charges..

Retract :: Retract (v. t.) To take back,, as a grant or favor previously bestowed; to revoke..

Retractor :: Retractor (n.) An instrument for holding apart the edges of a wound during amputation.

Retract :: Retract (v. t.) To withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion..

Retinaculum :: Retinaculum (n.) One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.

Paraphimosis :: Paraphimosis (n.) A condition in which the prepuce, after being retracted behind the glans penis, is constricted there, and can not be brought forward into place again..

Palinode :: Palinode (n.) An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode..

Palinodial :: Palinodial (a.) Of or pertaining to a palinode, or retraction..

Retract :: Retract (v. i.) To take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration.

Linguatulina :: Linguatulina (n. pl.) An order of wormlike, degraded, parasitic arachnids. They have two pairs of retractile hooks, near the mouth. Called also Pentastomida..

Retraction :: Retraction (n.) The act of retracting or shortening; as, the retraction of a severed muscle; the retraction of a sinew..

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