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evacuation

  (ĭ-văk'yū-ā'shən)

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1. The act of evacuating or the condition of being evacuated.
2. Physiology.
   1. Discharge of waste materials from the excretory passages of the body, especially from the bowels.
   2. The material so discharged.

noun

The act or process of discharging bodily wastes or foreign substances: elimination, excretion, purgation. Medicine catharsis. See keep/release.

Definition: expulsion
Antonyms: retention

n. the action of evacuating a person or a place: there were waves of evacuation during the blitz | a full-scale evacuation of the city center.

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1. an emptying or removal, especially the removal of any material from the body by discharge through a natural or artificial passage.
2. material discharged from the body, especially the discharge from the bowels.

(DOD) 1. The process of moving any person who is wounded, injured, or ill to and/or between medical treatment facilities. 2. The clearance of personnel, animals, or materiel from a given locality. 3. The controlled process of collecting, classifying, and shipping unserviceable or abandoned materiel, US or foreign, to appropriate reclamation, maintenance, technical intelligence, or disposal facilities. 4. The ordered or authorized departure of noncombatants from a specific area by Department of State, Department of Defense, or appropriate military commander. This refers to the movement from one area to another in the same or different countries. The evacuation is caused by unusual or emergency circumstances and applies equally to command or non-command sponsored family members. See also evacuee; noncombatant evacuation operations.

Evacuation may refer to:

• Emergency evacuation, the mass movement of persons from a dangerous place due to a disaster
• Patient evacuation, the procedure for moving a casualty from its initial location to an ambulance
• Casualty evacuation (CASEVAC), patient evacuation in combat situations
• Medical evacuation (MEDEVAC), evacuating a patient by plane or helicopter
• Evacuation (TV series), a children's show in the UK
• Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II
• Evacuation of East Prussia after World War II
• "Evacuation" (song), a song by Pearl Jam

Evacuation may also refer to:

• Forced migration, a coerced and often violent movement of persons away from their home region
• Defecation
• the physical process of creating a vacuum

See also

• List of World War II evacuations

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