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Extrication vs Extraction - What's the difference?

extrication | extraction |

As nouns the difference between extraction and extrication

is that extraction is an act of extracting or the condition of being extracted while extrication is the act or process of extricating or disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement.

extrication

English

Noun

(head)
  • The act or process of extricating or disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement.
  • (public safety, emergency medicine) Rescue of a trapped person in vehicle or machinery
  • The act of sending out or evolving.

    • extraction

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
  • A person's origin or ancestry.
  • Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
  • * Milton
    • They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
  • (military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
  • (dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.

    • Synonyms

    * descent, lineage