Crossword clues for effacement
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Effacement \Ef*face"ment\, n. [Cf. F. effacement.] The act if effacing; also, the result of the act.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1743, from French effacement; see efface + -ment.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of expunge, of wiping out; expungement. 2 withdrawal in order to make oneself inconspicuous; the making of oneself inconspicuous. 3 (context medicine English) A shortening, or thinning, of the cervix before or during early labour.
WordNet
n. shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor
withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous [syn: self-effacement]
Wikipedia
Effacement is the shortening, or thinning, of a tissue.
It can refer to cervical effacement. It can also refer to a process occurring in podocytes in nephrotic syndrome.
In histopathology, it refers to the near obliteration of a tissue, as in the normal parenchyma of tissues in the case of some cancers.
Usage examples of "effacement".
He must lend himself to the development of aggregatory ideas that favour the civilising process, and he must do his best to promote the disintegration of aggregations and the effacement of aggregatory ideas, that keep men narrow and unreasonably prejudiced one against another.
Faint, faded, immense and far-off tragedies, these struggles that were to have astounded posterity have already gone far towards complete effacement in any but a few specializing minds, are hardly more vivid now in our collective consciousness than the battles of the Peloponnesian War--or the campaigns and conquests of Tamerlane.
Government orders the effacement of an inscription on the church door which everybody reads, and which speaks of the head of the Roman Church in this manner.
For security, she tightened her fingers and thumb in the five depressions on her belt buckle, her personal object of power, and began to draw from it the weblike framework of a spell that would both protect her and injure or kill anyone who tried to cross its boundaries as well as generate an atmosphere of self-deprecation and effacement.