Effacement
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
The act of effacing, or the state of being effaced.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
The act if effacing; also, the result of the act.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
withdrawal
in order to make oneself
inconspicuous
noun.
A
shortening
, or
thinning
, of the
cervix
before or during early
labour
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noun.
withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous
noun.
shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor