What's the difference between effacement and whitewashing?

Effacement


Definition:

  • (n.) The act if effacing; also, the result of the act.

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.

Whitewashing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whitewash

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is not enough whitewash in the world to cover this.” For a week the government left responsibility for the investigation in the hands of the notoriously corrupt Guerrero authorities, who happen to come from another political party – the leftwing party of Democratic Revolution.
  • (2) But I think she is being used to whitewash the candidate and make him more palatable,” Coulter said.
  • (3) The airy, whitewashed restaurant is tasteful, but still a local joint.
  • (4) Sitting at a long table in a conference room at the whitewashed Nato headquarters, Sārts cannot see the logic of Russia invading Latvia in the near future, as it did Georgia and Ukraine, but he will not beat around the bush: “It is not at all impossible.” Last week the centre of excellence in Riga unveiled the results of research into what it claims is a “ preparatory information war ” in Latvia but with, it emerges, much wider repercussions.
  • (5) We now wait to see if the Metropolitan Police investigation into the original stitch-up outside Downing Street proves a whitewash or delivers proper accountability."
  • (6) It was therefore attempted to combat the hospital infections by all means with desodorizing procedures, thus trying primarily to suppress the stench by frequent whitewashing of the rooms, spraying of vinegar, by burning powder and even using precious incense.
  • (7) The stylish, varnished wooden interior and whitewashed walls has a slightly Danish feel, but General Merchant’s brunch-y, all-day menu is inspired by Australian cafe culture, where good coffee and pan-global fusion plates are the norm.
  • (8) The judge also hit back at claims that his summary represented a whitewash.
  • (9) Earlier in the war, in 1943, the British accused Nogara of similar "dirty work", by shifting Italian bank shares into Profima's hands in order to "whitewash" them and present the bank as being controlled by Swiss neutrals.
  • (10) Only one other BBC radio station recorded a bigger boost over the same period – 5 Live Sports Extra – and that was down to the digital station's ball-by-ball coverage of the England cricket team's summer whitewash of India.
  • (11) Erase even more, you cowardly regime,” Abo Bakr wrote on a wall in a message to the whitewashers.
  • (12) Anything else would look a whitewash and provoke the panic the EU is seeking to avoid.
  • (13) McKinnon's mother, Janis Sharp, called the report a whitewash and said it flew in the face of commitments from senior Lib Dem and Tory politicians before the election.
  • (14) A large donation in the 1970s allowed the institution to construct new buildings – the original whitewashed buildings and their treasures stay locked up, disturbed only when a curious visitor makes the four-hour journey from Libreville.
  • (15) But it was condemned by Brown's victims as a whitewash.
  • (16) It followed a briefing to Australian journalists by Whitehall officials which led to reports that the Anzacs were being "whitewashed" out of the commemorations in favour of black and Asian service members from India, the Caribbean and west Africa.
  • (17) The potentially huge shift in the scope and the nature of the inquiry, hinted at by government-appointed lawyers to the inquiry when they met survivors of abuse on Friday, would go some way to addressing concerns that it will be little more than a whitewash.
  • (18) It is vital for the UK's international reputation that it can prove it is not seeking to whitewash the historical record."
  • (19) After Lord Hutton stuck to his narrow remit about David Kelly, and Lord Butler fluffed the chance to write the damning concluding lines that his report justified, the small but not trivial part of the country that continues to regard Iraq as a live political question fears another whitewash.
  • (20) She instead chose to wage war on the obviously ludicrous strawman argument that absolutely nobody made: that merely to depict torture is to endorse it and that omitting torture would be to "whitewash" history.

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