Sentences with phrase «called effacement»

As your due date approaches, you may experience mild contractions that help prepare your cervix for delivery: It becomes soft, stretchy and thin, a process called effacement.

But as labor begins, your cervix softens, shortens, and thins, and that, my friends, is called effacement.

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In a 9 - 0 victory over Ohio Wesleyan in 1979, Denison Quarterback John Parsons put on a remarkable display of self - effacement and / or masochism when he called Little All - America Tailback Clay Sampson's number an Ohio Athletic Conference - record 54 times.

This process is called ripening or effacement.

One could also call it a deliberate self - effacement.