(n. pl.) The edges or lower borders of the roof of a building, which overhang the walls, and cast off the water that falls on the roof.
(n. pl.) Brow; ridge.
(n. pl.) Eyelids or eyelashes.
Example Sentences:
(1) This family, termed the endogenous avian retrovirus (EAV) family, is distinct from the previously characterized avian endogenous and exogenous retroviruses.
(2) To examine the role of enteric adenoviruses (EAV) in an urban area of Buenos Aires (Argentina), we prospectively studied faecal samples from 49 families of newborns.
(3) We have recently shown that the genome of equine arteritis virus (EAV) contains seven open reading frames (ORFs).
(4) Sisal eaves curtains deterred mosquitoes from hut entry but did not kill those that had entered.
(5) Stallions may also harbor EAV in the genital tract and transmit the virus to mares during coitus.
(6) Fluid leaking from arterial and venous extra-alveolar vessels (EAV's) may account for up to 60% of the total transvascular fluid flux when edema occurs in the setting of normal vascular permeability.
(7) An ART-CH polypurine tract, a tRNA(Trp)-binding site, regions around the TATA box and polyadenylation signal, and the beginning of the putative gag gene strongly resemble the corresponding regions of avian leukosis viruses and EAV, the two described classes of chicken retroviruses.
(8) Transmission of EAV infection by long-term carrier stallions would appear to occur solely by the venereal route.
(9) The infectivity of equine abortion (herpes) virus (EAV) was inactivated by treatment with reduced dithiothreitol (DTT).
(10) Case study Eaves recently struggled to help 29-year-old Linda and her 11-month-old baby.
(11) Northern blot hybridization analysis of RNA from Line-0 chicken embryos reveals several transcripts derived from the EAV proviruses.
(12) We conclude that the arterial and venous EAV's share a common interstitium in the zone 1 condition, this interstitium cannot be represented as a single compartment with a fixed resistance and compliance, and arterial and venous EAV leakage influences leakage from the other segment.
(13) A total of 180 samples from cases of diarrhoea and 766 samples obtained during diarrhoea-free periods were studied by dot-blot hybridization with an EAV-specific DNA probe.
(14) In comparisons of catches in two huts with 8 cm entry slits at eaves or ground level, large numbers of An.
(15) Perhaps the most interesting question arising concerns the ability of EAV, a DNA virus, to replicate successfully despite the presence of deoxyribonuclease activity at the site of replication (the nucleus).
(16) These carrier stallions play an important role in the dissemination and perpetuation of EAV.
(17) A number of these ORFs are predicted to encode structural EAV proteins.
(18) Consistent with previous findings (Kendler, Heath, Martin, & Eaves, Archives of General Psychiatry 43, 213-221, 1986) shared environmental influences were found to play a relatively minor role in the report of depressive symptoms.
(19) The F1- and F2-polypeptide components of in ovo activated fusion proteins of one virulent (AV or Australia-Victoria) strain, one low-virulence (EG or Eaves-Grimes) strain, and two avirulent (V4 or Queensland and WA2116) strains of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) were isolated and subjected to structural analysis.
(20) Ara-HxMP prevented hepatitis-associated deaths in hamsters, reduced the titer of EAV developing in hamsters, and inhibited the increase of serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase in EAV-infected hamsters.
Extend
Definition:
(v. t.) To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.
(v. t.) To enlarge, as a surface or volume; to expand; to spread; to amplify; as, to extend metal plates by hammering or rolling them.
(v. t.) To enlarge; to widen; to carry out further; as, to extend the capacities, the sphere of usefulness, or commerce; to extend power or influence; to continue, as time; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to extend the time of payment or a season of trail.
(v. t.) To hold out or reach forth, as the arm or hand.
(v. t.) To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply; as, to extend sympathy to the suffering.
(v. t.) To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions; as, to extend liquors.
(v. t.) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Therefore, these findings may extend the use of platelets as neuronal models.
(2) These cells contained organelles characteristic of the maturation stage ameloblast and often extended to the enamel surface, suggesting a possible origin from the ameloblast layer.
(3) Limited biopsic retroperitoneal lymphnode dissection subsequently extended following the result of the frozen section histology.
(4) Asthma is probably the commonest chronic disease in the United Kingdom, and its attendant morbidity extends outside the possible scope of the hospital sector.
(5) Doppler sample volume was extended to about 1.2 X 1.6 X 4.0 mm.
(6) Delta roc, which extends from base pairs 41883 to 43825, overlaps the nin5 deletion, which extend from base pairs 40501 to 43306.
(7) TNBS reacts to an extremely small extend with hemoglobin over the concentration range 0.4 to 4 mM whereas FDNB reacts with hemoglobin to a very large extent (50 fold more than TNBS).
(8) Four cDNAs extending into the 5'-noncoding region of the human von Willebrand factor cDNA have been characterized.
(9) This article, a review of factors controlling vasopressin (AVP) release in pregnancy, extends our contribution to a symposium in this journal published in 1987 (vol X, pp 270-275).
(10) The molecule may already in its native form have an extended conformation containing either free sulfhydryl groups or small S-S loops not affecting mobility in SDS-PAGE.
(11) Analysis of 156 records relating to patients at the age of 15 to 85 years with extended purulent peritonitis of the surgical and gynecological genesis (the toxic phase, VI category ASA) showed that combination of programmed sanitation laparotomy and intensive antibacterial therapy performed as short-term courses before, during and after the operation with an account of the information on the nature of the microbial associations and antibioticograms was an efficient procedure in treatment of severe peritonitis.
(12) The IL-8 isolated from each of these cell types is a mixture of two IL-8 polypeptides, one consisting of 72 amino acids (herein called [ser-IL-8]72) and the other 77 amino acids (an N-terminal extended form herein called [ala-IL-8]77).
(13) The follow-up period extended over 8 years to June 1978.
(14) Follow-up for half of the cases operated extended up to 2 years, the longest being up to 5 years, showed that 96% of the patients were satisfied.
(15) Lateral upper and lower lid lysis allows the needed extended period of healing.
(16) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
(17) The third patient was using an extended-wear soft contact lens for correction of residual myopia.
(18) The horizontal portion of the intracavernous ICA as well as the whole aspect of the aneurysm could be exposed as a result of the extended opening of the cavernous roof anterior to the posterior clinoid process.
(19) After an introductory note on primary preventive intervention of breast cancer during adulthood, the author defends and extends a hypothesis that relates most of the known risk factors for this disease to the development of preneoplastic lesions in the breast.
(20) The pineal of certain lizards possesses a finger-like projection that extends toward the parietal eye.