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Definition of Effacement
1. Noun. Shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor.
Group relationships: Childbed, Confinement, Labor, Labour, Lying-in, Parturiency, Travail
2. Noun. Withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous.
Definition of Effacement
1. n. The act if effacing; also, the result of the act.
Definition of Effacement
1. Noun. withdrawal in order to make oneself inconspicuous ¹
2. Noun. (medical) A shortening, or thinning, of the cervix before or during early labour ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Effacement
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Effacement
1. The thinning of the cervix which occurs before and while it dilates. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Effacement
Literary usage of Effacement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Critical Miscellanies by John Morley (1877)
"... we may value the more highly, as well for its rarity as for its intrinsic
worth, Mr. Mill's quality of self-effacement, and his steadfast care to look ..."
2. De L'intelligence by Hippolyte Taine (1900)
"CHAPITRE II LOIS DE LA RENAISSANCE ET DE L'effacement DES IMAGES SOMMAIRE. I.
L'image d'une sensation peut surgir après un long intervalle. — Exemples. ..."
3. Science from an Easy Chair: A Second Series by Edwin Ray Lankester (1913)
"... CHAPTER XXVIII THE effacement OF NATURE BY MAN VERY few people have any idea
of the extent to which man since his upgrowth in the late Tertiary period ..."
4. Obstetrics, normal and operative by George Peaslee Shears (1916)
"FIG. 105 FIG. ID5. FIG. 104.—Cervix of primipara. Beginning effacement. —Cervix
of primipara. effacement complete. Beginning dilatation. ..."
5. A Treatise on Rocks, Rock-weathering and Soils by George Perkins Merrill (1906)
"(10) effacement of Original Characteristics through Weathering. — In cases of
extreme decomposition, in place, the residual products may so slightly ..."
6. The Singing of the Future by David Thomas Ffrangcon- Davies (1905)
"The Christ, central figure of revelation and of art, reverence, courage, knowledge,
self-effacement, concentration, oratorio songs "sing themselves," ..."
7. Philip Dru: Administrator : a Story of Tomorrow, 1920-1935 by Edward Mandell House (1912)
"... CHAPTER LIU THE effacement OF PHILIP DRU IN the years since he had graduated
from West Point General Dru had learned to speak German, French and Spanish ..."
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