(v. t.) To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin.
(v. t.) To destroy, as a mental impression; to wear away.
Example Sentences:
(1) Histiocytes, lymphocytes, immunoblasts, and plasma cells were present in expanded paracortical regions which encroached on, and occasionally effaced, lymphoid follicles.
(2) In more than 60%, dilatation or effacement of the cervix occurred with minimal side effects.
(3) The O157:H8 strains did not produce VT. All gave localised attachment to HEp-2 cells, associated with a positive fluorescence-actin staining test, and all hybridised with the E coli attaching and effacing (eae) probe.
(4) Yet social workers are usually extremely modest and self-effacing about their achievements.
(5) Three of five patients in whom the diagnosis was made early in the course of the disease and in whom plasmapheresis was initiated immediately had reversal of epithelial foot process effacement and remission of proteinuria.
(6) The ability of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) to form attaching and effacing intestinal lesions is a major characteristic of EPEC pathogenesis.
(7) These findings contribute to emerging evidence that attaching effacing intestinal bacteria are globally distributed pathogens in a variety of host species and that bacteriophage-mediated production of Shiga-like toxin is related to the virulence of such bacteria.
(8) Mean basal levels and the rise in prostaglandin metabolites were not related to cerclage type, trimester of pregnancy, or cervical status (dilatation less than or equal to 3 cm; effacement less than or equal to 60%).
(9) One pLV527-hybridizing strain displayed both attachment-effacement and invasiveness in the rabbit ileal biopsy explant model.
(10) Immensely clever, but also personable, self-effacing and even at times giggly, Letwin has been charged with resolving disputes between departments and, in the coalition, he was a key link man with the Liberal Democrats.
(11) The patients were predicted to have a poor prognosis if associated with an earlier occurrence, the hematoma was large, the patient had a poor Glasgow Coma Scale score at the time of CT follow-up, clinical deterioration was noted, or partial or complete effacement of the suprachiasmatic cistern was noted on the CT scan.
(12) It takes me a few seconds to realise that Ben Miller (best known for BBC1's The Armstrong & Miller Show ) is just terribly self-effacing and hidden by a beard (I check later; he's losing it for the show proper).
(13) Four weeks post-transplantation the xenografts were intraluminally inoculated with various strains of lapine attaching and effacing E. coli or group A rotavirus.
(14) Eventually, large areas of brush border effacement occurred with close apposition between bacterial and enterocyte membranes, leading to cup and pedestal formation.
(15) Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) are a class of diarrheagenic organisms that induce a characteristic attaching and effacing lesion in enterocytes and various cultured cell lines.
(16) Fold thickening evolved into fold effacement with a shaggy contour in two patients with viral infection.
(17) We conclude that small bowel colonization by colonizing, nontoxigenic E. coli impairs water and electrolyte absorption and sucrase activity in the absence of recognized enterotoxin, cytotoxin, invasion, or effacement traits.
(18) These results confirm the role of the eae gene in the attaching and effacing activity of EPEC and establish the utility of a new system for the construction of deletion mutations.
(19) BE levels were found to correlate significantly with uterine muscle contraction (r = 0.966, P less than 0.05) and with cervical effacement (r = 0.974, P less than 0.05) during labor.
(20) Patients with decreased lower face height (40 percent) had exaggerated, deepened folds with acutely closed angles between the lower lip and chin pad, whereas those with increased lower face height (25 percent) had shallow, effaced folds.
Extinguish
Definition:
(v. t.) To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right.
(v. t.) To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some 10 fire engines remained on the scene after rushing there to extinguish the many blazes caused by the crash.
(2) Perhaps strangely, it was the second remark that troubled me more than the possibility that humanity would be extinguished by my hand.
(3) A specific interaction of conformationally intact rhinovirus with peripheral blood mononuclear leukocytes was required for induction of the response, since the response was extinguished at reduced quantities of infectious rhinovirus, and acid inactivated rhinovirus did not augment cellular cytotoxicity.
(4) When tone presentations were continued, without further pairing with morphine, the hyperthermic response to the tone was gradually extinguished.
(5) Leukocyte suspensions from the infected agammaglobulinemic patient extinguished detectable infectious virus in vitro.
(6) Transcription of MyoD itself is extinguished in butyrate-treated myoblasts and myotubes, an effect that may be due to the inability of MyoD to autoactivate its own transcription.
(7) Fasting for 24 h extinguished the greatest part of this response.
(8) Abbado sees this as meaning that music is both destroyed and redeemed by its temporality: it exists and is extinguished in a moment, but has the endless possibility of being created anew in time.
(9) A case history is presented in which progressive muscle relaxation, diaphragmatic breathing, and flooding were used to extinguish and countercondition a writing phobia in a junior-year occupational therapy student.
(10) When, in stoppage time, the 33-year-old striker swept a first-time shot home any lingering Villa optimism was extinguished.
(11) Rats implanted with placebo pellets and given access to morphine reestablished lever pressing, while those given access to isotonic saline extinguished their lever pressing.
(12) A relationship seems to exist between the tumor load and the immune status, which reverts to a normal pattern when the former is extinguished.
(13) Furthermore, TSE1-repressed genes were hormone inducible, whereas fully extinguished genes were not.
(14) But then a mismanaged clean-up in an underground garbage dump ignited a seam of anthracite eight miles long that proved impossible to extinguish.
(15) The fire extinguisher was thrown after protesters swarmed into Millbank Tower, the Westminster building that houses the Conservative party's headquarters.
(16) Functional smoke detectors and fire extinguishers were present in 75% and 27% of homes, respectively.
(17) This level of flash did not extinguish the response to the stimulus.
(18) In London a candlelit vigil – which the government hopes will be emulated in churches, by other faiths and by families across the land – will be held at Westminster Abbey, ending with the last candle being extinguished at 11pm, the moment war was declared.
(19) We review five specific techniques for the production of these antibodies (Abs): (a) So-called "shotgun," non-selective approach; (b) cascade procedure; (c) lymphocyte "panning"; (d) cyclophosphamide elimination of unwanted Ab producers; and finally (e) use of polyclonal antisera to extinguish unwanted antibody production.
(20) All peaks of the pyr-MEP were extinguished in the animals subjected to impact forces of 50 g-cm and above (n = 12).