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What does effacement mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of expunging, of wiping out; expungement.
  2. Withdrawal in order to make oneself inconspicuous; the making of oneself inconspicuous.
  3. (medicine) A shortening, or thinning, of the cervix before or during early labour.
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The effacement of life was not so marked but that, entering uninformed, he might have supposed her sleeping.
Strikingly addressed are the hypocrisies and effacement within the tourist trade.
Additionally, there is relative sulcal effacement and loss of grey-white matter differentiation from diffuse brain swelling.
A second computed tomographic scan showed effacement of the temporal sulci and gyri, which was believed to be secondary to cerebral edema.
But in a few more minutes, be it from one cause or from the other, the effacement is complete.
Epithelial foot process effacement with microvillous transformation was present.

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