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What does retraction mean?

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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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The male has been known to nip at the bottom edges of the tentacles in order to cause retraction.
The difference between the two suborders of turtles is the method of head retraction.
Simultaneously, the actin bundles within filopodia disappear, followed by retraction of these surface extensions.
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.
The surgeon performs lateral retraction of the junction of the infundibulum of the gallbladder and cystic duct.

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