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extirpation

[ ek-ster-pey-shuhn ]

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noun

Biology, Ecology. (of a species) the state or condition of having become locally or regionally extinct:
Forest elephants in Central Africa have experienced a 65 percent reduction in their populations, and extirpation is imminent if the poaching rate persists.
Medicine/Medical. the removal or excision of a tumor, organ, etc.:
Minor controllable bleeding was the only noted complication associated with lymph node extirpation in two of the thirty-nine performed procedures.

First recorded in 1540–50, for an earlier sense; extirpat(e) ( def ) + -ion ( def )

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