Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Extrication \Ex`tri*ca"tion\, n.
   1. The act or process of extricating or disentangling; a
      freeing from perplexities; disentanglement.

   2. The act of sending out or evolving.

Source : WordNet®

extrication
     n : the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition
         [syn: {unsnarling}, {untangling}, {disentanglement}]