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Look up effacement in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Effacement may refer to:
Histology
edit- Effacement (histology), the shortening, or thinning, of a tissue.
- Cervical effacement, the thinning of the cervix.
Paleontology
edit- Effacement, an evolutionary trend resulting in the loss of surface detail in trilobites.