Extraction

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Extraction may refer to:

• Extraction (dental), surgical removal of a tooth from the mouth

• Extraction (fragrance), obtaining fragrant oils and compounds from odorous raw materials
• Extraction (military), removal of someone from a hostile area to a secure location
• Comedo extraction, a method of acne treatment
• Data extraction, retrieving data out of data sources
• Liquid-liquid extraction or solvent extraction, method to separate components of a mixture
• Resource extraction, locating, acquiring and selling any resource
• Dead Space: Extraction, a video game for the Wii that serves as a prequel to the 2008 video game Dead Space.

• Leaching, separating a substance from a solid matrix into a liquid, in chemistry
• Reversing data compression, a.k.a. decompression, in computing
• Choosing elements from a source document, in linguistics
• Part of the anatomy of a stroke, in rowing
• "Extractions", song by BS 2000 from the 2001 album Simply Mortified
• Extraction (album), an album by guitarist Greg Howe

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