effacement


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Synonyms for effacement

shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor

withdrawing into the background

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At age 31 (six years later), the second episode of NS occurred, and the second kidney biopsy revealed negative IF for IgG, IgA, C3, and C1q, except faint IgM, with EM findings of complete effacement of foot processes and acellular debris in thickened capillary walls compatible with the diagnosis of a nonimmune complex podocytopathy and healed previous episode of membranous LN.
CT scan of the head showed diffuse sulcal effacement, obliterated basal cisterns, and hyperdensity in the interhemispheric fissure suggestive of SAH (Figure 2).
Caption: Figure 2: Liver biopsy showing nodules and fibrous septa associated with effacement of lobular architecture in Hematoxylin-Eosin staining.
According to new Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) recommendations, which are based on a large randomized trial, use is beneficial among: singleton gestations between 34 weeks 0 days and 36 weeks 5 days at high probability risk of delivery in the late preterm period either due to spontaneous labor with cervical change (at least 3-cm dilation or 75% effacement), preterm premature rupture of the membranes, or a planned delivery scheduled in the late preterm period due to specific obstetric indications, such as oligohydramnios, preeclampsia, gestational hypertension, and intrauterine growth restriction.
According to Amir Taheri, who got hold of the book early, the three key words are: "nabudi," which means "annihilation," "imha," which means "wiping," and "zaval," meaning "effacement."
In the first week of August, Tehran published a book of 416 pages written by Ali Khamenei entitled "Palestine." The cover image was labeled "The flag bearer of Jihad to liberate Jerusalem." The volume was released to Western sources, who reported that the most constantly recurring phrases in the text in relation to Israel are "nabudi" -- meaning annihilation; imha -- meaning disappearing or fading out; and "zaval" meaning effacement.
There is also effacement of suprasellar cistern suggestive of descending tentorial herniation.
The histopathological appearance showed complete effacement of architecture in 17 (68 %) of cases followed by sinusoidal distribution in 6(24 %) cases while partial effacement of architecture in 2 (8%) of cases.
This is "a logic of effacement by Daesh (ISIL) of one of the most exceptional heritages of humanity," the French statement pointed out.
Thus, though in this issue we feature three articles covering a lot of important ground in the field of Jewish American literary study--children's Holocaust literature, Philip Roth, and the circulation and effacement of Jewish identity in twentieth-century American poetry--we are also featuring a Forum section on the place of Judith Butler in the BDS debate.
"Governments should continuously implement effective and novel strategies to combat illicit trade by stepping effacement measures," SEATCA said.
The semiotics of Eastern and Western European economic systems, the semantics of historical processes, adolescence in a period of change: Ondak ties all of these together through the motifs of looking back and effacement, while the title invokes Rauschenberg's Erased de Kooning Drawing, 1953--as if to say that the empty, nonreflective template had taken the place of the real mirror.
Dans le sillage de Wilhem de Kooning, elle presente des oeuvres ouvertes, non-finies, grace a des procedes comme fragmentations, eclaboussures, effacement. Elle nous montre les vestiges de nos reves et nous donne bien a penser qu'il y a differentes manieres de voyager.
The Syrian heritage and archeological ruins and monuments have been undergoing acts of loot and effacement at the hands of the armed terrorist groups.
Powers apparently wants us to notice that absence of identity or its effacement is a current Irish and American concern, exacerbated by America's dubious wars.