title: Retraction
text: # Retraction
  
  Retraction or retract(ed) may refer to:
  
  ## Academia
  
  * Retraction in academic publishing, withdrawals of previously published academic journal articles
  
  ## Mathematics
  
  * Retraction (category theory)
  * Retract (group theory)
  * Retraction (topology)
  
  ## Human physiology
  
  * Retracted (phonetics), a sound pronounced to the back of the vocal tract, in linguistics
  * Retracted tongue root, a position of the tongue during the pronunciation of a vowel, in phonetics
  * Sternal retraction, a symptom of respiratory distress in humans
  * Retraction (kinesiology), an anatomical term of motion
  
  ## Linguistics
  
  * A process which has led to the Neo-Shtokavian accentuation, also known as "Neo-Shtokavian metatony"
  