(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.
Pregnancy
Definition:
(n.) The condition of being pregnant; the state of being with young.
(n.) Figuratively: The quality of being heavy with important contents, issue, significance, etc.; unusual consequence or capacity; fertility.
Example Sentences:
(1) Confined placental chorionic mosaicism is reported in 2% of viable pregnancies cytogenetically analyzed on chorionic villi samplings (CVS) at 9-12 weeks of gestation.
(2) Nulliparous women were also more likely to discontinue the condom because of pregnancy, as were non-Protestants and the Australian-born.
(3) Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are frequently accompanied by deteriorated renal functions and by pathological lesions in the glomeruli.
(4) There were 101 unwanted pregnancies, and 1 child was born with intersexual genitals.
(5) From the biochemical markers in follicular fluid, cyclic adenosine monophosphate has a distinct predictive value in regard to pregnancy in in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer cycles.
(6) The multiple pregnancy rate was 18% and the abortion rate, 18%.
(7) In the 153 women to whom iron supplements were given during pregnancy, the initial fall in haemoglobin concentration was less, was arrested by 28 weeks gestation and then rose to a level equivalent to the booking level.
(8) Four cases of pregnancies in two women with tricuspid atresia (TA) are described.
(9) Maternal diabetes and antihistamine use during the last 2 weeks of pregnancy were associated with significantly higher rates of retrolental fibroplasia, whereas toxemia was associated with lower rates.
(10) Four of the five ectopic pregnancies occurred in patients with previously documented tubal pathology.
(11) A retrospective study examined the reactions to the termination of pregnancy for fetal malformation and the follow up services that were available.
(12) A reduction in neonatal deaths from this cause might be expected if facilities for antenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy were made available, although this raises grave ethical problems.
(13) In the interim, sonographic studies during pregnancy in women at risk for AIDS may be helpful in identifying fetal intrauterine growth retardation and may help raise our level of suspicion for congenital AIDS.
(14) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
(15) Maternal plasma levels of cortiocotrophin-releasing factor (CRF) have been measured in abnormal pregnancy states to assess their potential as biochemical markers for at-risk pregnancies.
(16) After calving, probably the position of new follicles is temporally influenced by direct signals from the uterine horns affected differently by pregnancy.
(17) This article, a review of factors controlling vasopressin (AVP) release in pregnancy, extends our contribution to a symposium in this journal published in 1987 (vol X, pp 270-275).
(18) We describe 10 patients with cerebral venous thrombosis: two had protein S deficiency, one had protein C deficiency, one was in early pregnancy, and there was a single case of each of the following: dural arteriovenous malformation, intracerebral arteriovenous malformation, bilateral glomus tumours, systemic lupus erythematosus, Wegener's granulomatosis, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
(19) Women who make their first visit during their first pregnancy are more likely than those who are not pregnant to receive a pregnancy test or counseling on matters other than birth control.
(20) Six of eight AD and seven of eight vitamin A-adequate dams carried pregnancy to term (greater than or equal to Day 64).