effacement

His mind was filled with death and effacement; the last, absolute relief.

The effacement of the city's multi-ethnic past had been so total as to be unconscious.

The neuter spread his hand in a gesture of effacement.

The central reoccurring themes of effacement, memory and the human body play a major role in his work.

And it involves media in which the effacement of the artist was once considered not only a practical reality but also a virtue.

But that effacement is one of his themes.

The degree of cervical effacement may be felt during a vaginal examination but is not necessary.

This, he claimed, would lead to "the absolute effacement of the Conservative Party".

My effacement was only temporary, as Siringo appeared at his room shortly afterward.

Thus on one side there had been complete effacement of party activities, while on the other they ran forward unresisted.

"What upsets her is the feeling of diminishment, impoverishment and effacement."

Is this some sort of act of effacement?

There is concrete detail, precise observation and a real effacement of the self."

I have remarked in old soldiers much the same smiling sadness and sociable self- effacement.

The sage performed another gesticulation of a ritual effacement.

Memory effacement is not a pleasant experience.

During effacement, the cervix becomes incorporated into the lower segment of the uterus.

They are not thought to be part of the process of effacement of the cervix.

Then with exaggerated self- effacement, he went to a vacant table nearby and seated himself, still smiling his twisted smile.

The effacement of individual separateness must be thor- ough.

Cervical effacement refers to a thinning of the cervix.

Prior to effacement, the cervix is like a long bottleneck, usually about four centimeters in length.

Cervical dilation is accompanied by effacement, the thinning of the cervix.

"Really, Briggs, if I may so express myself, your self - effacement appears to me to be more than human.

See a picture of cervical effacement .