1. Shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labour 
2. Withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous
   - self-effacement

Derived forms: effacements

See also: efface

Type of: biological process, organic process, withdrawal

Part of: childbed, confinement, labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], lying-in, parturiency, travail

Encyclopedia: Effacement

• irreverently
• irreversibility
• irreversible
• irreversible process
• irreversibly
• irrevocability
• irrevocable
• irrevocableness
• irrevocably
• irrevokable
• irridenta
• irridentism
• irridentist
• irrigate
• irrigation
• irrigation ditch
• irritability
• irritable
• irritable bowel syndrome
• unproblematic
• unprocessed
• unprocurable
• unproductive
• unproductively
• unproductiveness