(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.
Trough
Definition:
(n.) A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water, as to a mill wheel.
(n.) Any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape; as, trough between two ridges, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) These observations were confirmed by the killing curves in pooled serum obtained at peak and trough levels.
(2) Plasma aldosterone peaked (p < 0.05) at 22 hours after operation, and argine vasopressin peaked (p < 0.05) at two hours and then declined (p < 0.05) to a trough at 24 hours.
(3) Our observations demonstrated that echographic coaptation of the aortic valve leaflets coincides with the trough of the aortic pressure incisura and the onset of A2.
(4) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(5) IDDM in Canterbury, New Zealand, presents in cycles of incidence peaks and troughs, each spanning 2-3 yr.
(6) No IgE circadian rhythm was validated in healthy children while a large amplitude (approximately equal to 30% of the 24 hours mean) circadian rhythm with 2 diurnal peaks and a nocturnal trough was demonstrated (P less than 0.0023) in the asthmatics.
(7) Trough levels of LH, however, are dependent on the frequency of LHRH-induced pulsatile LH secretion.
(8) Appropriate conditions for administering the drug by intravenous drip infusion to neonates and infants at ages of more than 1 week were investigated taking observed blood levels and achieved peak levels and trough levels calculated using the one-compartment open model into account.
(9) Dose limiting toxicities were observed in 9 of 10 patients with 12-h trough piritrexim concentrations greater than 0.5 microM, whereas only 2 of 7 patients with trough concentrations less than 0.5 microM experienced dose limiting toxicities.
(10) Both free and luciferase-bound B show similar negative circular dichroism in the region 330-475 nm with troughs at 375 and 380 nm, respectively.
(11) Whole blood steady-state trough concentrations of cyclosporine were measured by radioimmunoassay (RIA) and TDx assays employing monoclonal antibodies in 82 samples from 39 renal transplant patients.
(12) Regression analysis also showed a strong relationship between the area under the curve (AUC) from time 0 to 11 hours after the initial dose and the trough at steady state (r = 0.86).
(13) algebraic sum of these three cosine functions yielded a circadian waveform with peak-times occurring near 0300 and 1130 hr and a trough-time about 2200 hr.
(14) Group I represented the modified "over-the-top" technique with a deep cancellous bone trough and represented the most isometric tracking.
(15) Circular dichroic spectra of the lipophorins and apolipophorin from 190 to 250 nm showed a single trough at 218 nm and a peak at 194 nm.
(16) • The best ideas are tested by their peaks and troughs.
(17) During the estrous cycle, mitotic activity of the granulosa cells was highest at estrus in follicles less than 601 micron, and at diestrus in follicles greater than 600 micron; while the mitotic trough was at proestrus in all the follicles.
(18) Data analysis revealed a seasonal pattern in the monthly distribution of births, with the peak period observed during April-June, and a trough during November-January.
(19) The issues in CsA monitoring include selection of sample matrix, analytical method, dosing interval and the timing of trough measurements, the temporal relationship between measurements and physiological events such as toxicity, the concurrent presence of multiple other immunosuppressive agents, and the lack of "gold standards" for determining rejection, adequate immunosuppression, and toxicity.
(20) The addition of LTB4 to the microsomal fraction gave a type-I spectral change with a peak at around 390 nm and a trough at 422 nm, indicating a direct interaction of LTB4 with the cytochrome P-450.