(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.
Soffit
Definition:
(n.) The under side of the subordinate parts and members of buildings, such as staircases, entablatures, archways, cornices, or the like. See Illust. of Lintel.