Usually means: Thinning of the cervix during childbirth.
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  1. effacement: Merriam-Webster
  2. effacement: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. effacement: Collins English Dictionary
  4. effacement: Vocabulary.com
  5. effacement: Wordnik
  6. effacement: Wiktionary
  7. effacement: Dictionary.com
  8. Effacement (histology), Effacement: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Effacement: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. effacement: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. effacement: Rhymezone
  12. Effacement: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. effacement: FreeDictionary.org
  14. effacement: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Effacement: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. effacement: Legal dictionary

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. effacement: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Effacement: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Pregnancy & Baby (No longer online)
  7. A-Z Family health glossary (No longer online)
  8. effacement: Medical dictionary
  9. Effacement: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (effacement)

noun:  The act of expunging, of wiping out; expungement.
noun:  Withdrawal in order to make oneself inconspicuous; the making of oneself inconspicuous.
noun:  (medicine) A shortening, or thinning, of the cervix before or during early labour.

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