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What does retraction mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word retraction? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. An act or instance of retracting.
  2. A statement printed or broadcast in a public forum which effects the withdrawal of an earlier assertion, and which concedes that the earlier assertion was in error.
  3. (mathematics) A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace.
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Following a vascular injury, vasoconstriction and retraction usually occur immediately and decrease blood flow to the affected area.
Stromal retraction between tumor islands and dermal connective tissue was observed in 12 cases.
The Register has shamed itself by printing this and should publish an immediate retraction.
In every case the primary surgical aim was exenteration of retraction pocket disease with or without cholesteatoma.
In addition, an intra-operative lumbar spinal drain was used to facilitate atraumatic dural elevation and temporal lobe retraction.
I went ballistic and fired off a letter demanding a retraction of the fees.

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