Dilation and effacement are your body's way of getting ready for labor – your cervix gradually opens (dilates) and thins out (effaces) to help your baby make that grand entrance. This process ...

2020, the cookbook author and model set out to dispel the stigma ... they've renamed the term "early cervical dilation." Rankins says cervical insufficiency happens when there's painless dilation ...

However, there is typically only anecdotal support for these practices. Dilation is the widening of the cervical opening. Increased dilation is a necessary physiological process for childbirth ...

In any case, Cindrilla Chumduri is convinced: "Overall, the organoid model of the cervix offers great potential for further advances in the study of the biology of the female reproductive tract." ...