Both Uses of
extant
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Cutting for Stone
- There were so many extant surgery texts that it was surprising how popular The Expedient Operator (or A Short Practice, as it was known in some countries) had become.†
Part 1 *extant = still in existence
- Having no picture of him, and no knowledge that he had authored a famous textbook (Hema, I learned later, had given away or removed every extant copy of A Short Practice at Missing), Thomas Stone seemed unreal to me, a ghost, an idea.†
Part 3
Definition:
still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost