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

Retractor :: Retractor (n.) A muscle serving to draw in any organ or part. See Illust. under Phylactolaemata.

Retractive :: Retractive (n.) That which retracts, or withdraws..

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

Retractation :: Retractation (n.) The act of retracting what has been said; recantation.

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..

Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions..

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

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

Proboscidifera :: Proboscidifera (n. pl.) An extensive division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, including those that have a long retractile proboscis, with the mouth at the end, as the cones, whelks, tritons, and cowries. See Illust. of Gastropoda, and of Winkle..

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

Retract :: Retract (v. t.) To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle..

Rostrifera :: Rostrifera (n. pl.) A division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile..

Rhinophore :: Rhinophore (n.) One of the two tentacle-like organs on the back of the head or neck of a nudibranch or tectibranch mollusk. They are usually retractile, and often transversely furrowed or plicate, and are regarded as olfactory organs. Called also dorsal tentacles. See Illust. under Pygobranchia, and Opisthobranchia..

Unnotify :: Unnotify (v. t.) To retract or withdraw a notice of.

Retractor :: Retractor (n.) One who, or that which, retracts..

Rhachiglossa :: Rhachiglossa (n. pl.) A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append..

Recant :: Recant (v. t.) To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back openly; to retract; to recall..

Palinode :: Palinode (n.) A retraction; esp., a formal retraction..

Retractable :: Retractable (a.) Capable of being retracted; retractile.

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