Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Effacement (histology)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Effacement is the shortening, or thinning, of a tissue.
It can refer to cervical effacement. It can also refer to a process occurring in podocytes in nephrotic syndrome.[1]
In histopathology, it refers to the near obliteration of a tissue, as in the normal parenchyma of tissues in the case of some cancers.
References
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads