effacement

English Thesaurus

1. withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous (noun.act)

hypernym	:	withdrawal,
definition	:	the act of withdrawing (noun.act)

2. shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor (noun.process)

hypernym	:	biological process, organic process,
definition	:	a process occurring in living organisms (noun.process)

part meronym	:	childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail,
definition	:	concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child (noun.state)

3. withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous (noun.act)

derivation	:	efface,
definition	:	make inconspicuous (verb.emotion)

derivation	:	efface,
definition	:	make inconspicuous (verb.emotion)