Sentences with word «effacement»

Activity of the effector proteins result in effacement of the brush border, induction of massive membrane ruffles and formation of novel reticular F - actin structures in a highly dynamic manner.

Dilation is measured in centimeters and effacement in percentages; after an internal exam, your practitioner will probably give you the measurements.

The American Pregnancy Association (APA) defines effacement as, «the process by which the cervix prepares for delivery.»

Your healthcare practitioner may also want to do an internal exam to see if you are dilated (when the cervix begins to open) and / or experiencing cervical effacement (thinning of the cervix).

Dilation means how far your cervix has opened up and effacement means how much your cervix has thinned out.

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.

Doctors or nurses routinely checking mom for dilation and effacement only prods at the baby, and doesn't make anything happen any faster.

The maturing baby and the aging placenta trigger a prostaglandin increase that softens the cervix in readiness for effacement and dilatation.

Chief Willoughby himself, played with sturdy acceptance and flickers of self - effacement by a wonderful Woody Harrelson, is less outraged than the rest.

She is intimidated into self effacement and self deprecation by her father's insensitivity.

It gets hard to distinguish recovery from effacement.

Satellite Gallery presents Ten Thousand Suns, a new group exhibition that explores effacement, memory and remembering highlighting new work by some great artists including Mark Hall - Patch whom we featured in our past issue.

I'm no more your mother Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow Effacement at the wind's hand.

However, MAD turns the contradictory goals of preservation and effacement into a plan.

To be humble is not an act of self - effacement best cultivated by spending years in a monastery.

Having had this stressful experience with premature effacement and cervical insufficiency during my twin pregnancy, I learned there was very little I was actually in control of, aside from doing my best to stay relaxed and in bed.

At 0 percent effacement, the cervix is at least 2 centimeters (cm) long, or very thick.

Frankly, for all the sound and fury with respect to state regulation (which everyone seems to assume Leveson will recommend when he reports on Thursday) and its potentially malign impact on investigative journalism, two things stick out like Chris Bryant MP at a meeting of the Self - Effacement Society.

Upon entering the water, an oxytocin surge occurs, which increases uterine contractions and facilitates cervix dilation and cervix effacement.

Moore has never been looser or funnier on screen — a hilariously spacy response to an accidental kiss is a priceless Oscar - clip moment — which only makes her sober emotional self - effacement all the more startling when it comes.

It's the product of the «Larry the Cable Guy» school of redneck effacement tacked onto a tired redemption romantic comedy, even more tired fish - out - of - water malarkey, and finally an inexplicable blanket criticism of all things urban.

Achilles and the Tortoise offers another pathetic Beat Takeshi double, but in a further effacement of his onscreen persona, Kitano doesn't appear until two - thirds of the way into the film.

That's far better than even the most effacement engines out there.

Because of this, the passages about Danticat's own childhood never fully snap into focus and she can only gesture toward her feeling of abandonment when her parents move to the U.S.. For at least one reviewer, this self - effacement compromises Danticat's honesty with the reader, especially since she was writing acclaimed novels and winning literary renown as the book's events unfolded.

A different kind of self - effacement appears in a shared vocabulary of materials and forms.

The French actually means something closer to «beneath effacement» or simply «crossed out,» not unlike the ironic strikeouts in many a blog.

This act of self - effacement acknowledges that she may only become herself once she seeks to transcend beyond her projected reality of moving images.

On the surface, such candid self - effacement seems unlikely in a writer whose work is so searching and confident, but Killian's apparent lack of ego may be connected to his fascination with makeshift art.

The title of the show — a phantom address next to the gallery refers to the continuing effacement of Miami's urban landscape, and the role of the arts in this architectural palimpsest.

He is a man of few words, and he means their repetition and effacement as acts of recovery.

experience painless cervical effacement and dilation, they do not even realize that it's happening.

In women with preterm labor symptoms in the late preterm period, SMFM recommends waiting for evidence of true preterm labor, such as a cervical dilatation of at least three centimeters or effacement of at least 75 % before treatment with betamethasone.

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

One quick check on dilation and effacement only to find out that the baby was very much along.

The maturing baby and the aging placenta trigger a prostaglandin increase that softens the cervix in readiness for effacement and dilatation.

It is the very opposite: a record of more than 40 years of self - effacement by an artist who hikes through landscapes, leaving only ephemeral marks behind - a pattern of campfire ash on a rock, an arrangement of sticks or stones picked up along the way.

For more examples of this supernaturally - tilting self effacement, see the humorously titled Self - Elf and Schrödinger's Katz (both 2016).

«Affect / Effect - Warm: Green, Purple» typifies her method of troweling color around the canvas, mostly wet into wet, leaving a surface on which we can barely distinguish accretion from effacement.

Exploring effacement, memory and remembering this exhibition will consider the layered interconnections of policy with respect to resource - based development projects in Canada and globally, modern technology and artistic practice.

There's a sort of necessary self - effacement in being a minister of Christian religion, I think, and that's quite hard to sustain when you're constantly popping up on various things.

An expert on Scottish Enlightenment, Phillipson has spent much of the past decade on this biography of the great Scot, drawing a rich portrait of an unusual person and personality whose self - effacement has spoiled many other attempts to pin him down.

And yes, for Trump that would require a self - effacement as uncommon as it is wrenching: the confession that the election is finally about something more than himself.

Can they reveal the painful truths and deceptions about women's lives or do they collude in women's effacement?

One of them is his own self - effacement that led him to shy from the limelight and work modestly and humbly in the background.

The «downsizing» Keillor describes isn't about self «effacement, but about letting the delicate drama of Creation unfold on God's terms.