#effacement  shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor
  supertype:  #organic_process__organicproces__biological_process  a process occurring in living organisms
  part of:  #parturiency__labor__labour__confinement__lyingin__travail__childbed  concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
     part of:  #pregnancy__gestation  the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus

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