(v. t.) To lie over or upon; specifically, to suffocate by lying upon; as, to overlie an infant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sites of chemical synaptic interaction between the sensory cells and L7 are located at varicosities along sensory cell processes that overlie the main axons of L7, since these structures have been shown ultrastructurally to contain active zones.
(2) Some of the stomata overlie a deep pit; others overlie a shallower pit in which the surface of another cell can be seen beneath the opening.
(3) Laterally, the primordial piriform cortex and the prepiriform region overlie the relatively large primordial amygdaloid complex, which includes an anterior anygdaloid nucleus, a primordial corticomedial amygdaloid nucleus and a primordial basolateral amygdaloid nucleus.
(4) Endothelial cells are relatively large, with thinly spread cytoplasm, and they overlie macrophages, granulocytes, and other less differentiated developing hemopoietic cells.
(5) Sepal primordia then arise (stage 3) and grow to overlie the primordium (stage 4).
(6) No virus was recovered from agarose which did not overlie a focus of viral replication.
(7) In humans and sheep, this band contains puncta that overlie cell bodies.
(8) Under most conditions the two methyl resonances overlie each other to a large degree.
(9) Lesions may overlie overt or occult embryologic malformations.
(10) Section of the right internal spermatic artery and vein where they overlie the ureter in Wistar-related male rats suggests that the right hydronephrosis found in these animals is not a consequence of simple obstruction by the blood vessels.
(11) Results indicate that the centers of rectus insertions, especially the lateral rectus, approximately overlie the ora, with the edges of the insertions more posterior and variable.
(12) No commissural fibers terminate within the aggregations of layer IV cells themselves but the more superficial terminal ramifications may come to overlie these aggregations.
(13) This label localizes to sites on the membrane that overlie the intramembranous particles.
(14) These "footprints" overlie a highly conserved 8-base-pair motif, CCTGATAATA.
(15) These CyPs seemed gradually to overlie and underlie the adjacent acinar cells and resulted in progressive degeneration and loss of acinar cells, which subsequently were replaced by altered centroacinar cells.
(16) It is concluded that where focal slow-wave EEG abnormalities overlie oedematous brain the EEG abnormalities are not primarily related to the brain oedema but arise from either local biomechanical or other pathophysiological mechanisms.
(17) However, the nerve may overlie the anterior iliac wing or pass between two slips of the inguinal ligament and may also be compressed if it passes deep to or through the sartorius muscle.
(18) The vertical chains of silver grains overlie neuronal processes identifiable as both dendrites and myelinated axons, but unmyelinated axons may also be included.
(19) Among these are 6 longitudinal glial cells on each side of each segment that overlie the longitudinal axon tracts.
(20) Since penile spines overlie dermal tactile receptors, they may play a role in copulatory behaviour.
Overlive
Definition:
(v. t.) To outlive.
(v. i.) To live too long, too luxuriously, or too actively.
Example Sentences:
(1) In particular, the insistence by policymakers, fearing a public backlash against using taxpayers' money to make whole banks who have overlent to peripheral economies, that creditors should shoulder a "fair" share of the burden, has been the oil on which the flames of the crisis have fed and spread.
(2) Pre- and postsynaptic components contribute to their overll postsynaptic effec in actively transmitting synapses.
(3) Resection of the overling dome is the usual treatment of exteriorised biliary cysts.
(4) The overlability of WHO IRP's has not allowed yet to achieve an optimal standardization of the immunochemical methods for measurement of plasma proteins.