HEV

American  

abbreviation

1. hybrid electric vehicle: an automobile or other vehicle that is powered by an internal-combustion engine and an electric motor whose battery is charged by the engine and by regenerative braking that converts the vehicle's kinetic energy into electricity.

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Etymology

Origin of HEV

First recorded in 1970–75 as hybrid electric vehicle

Example Sentences

The comparison of these samples, together with six additional samples from a previous study, has made it possible to establish "a close phylogenetic relationship" -- that is, evolutionary kinship and genetic similarity -- with the HEV strains from blood donors in this area.

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Moreover, the wild boar samples with the virus belonged to non-adult individuals, which, according to the researchers, indicates the endemic -- that is, habitual and permanent -- maintenance of HEV in the wild boar population of the metropolitan area by young individuals.

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In this sense, they explain that "the lack of HEV detection in adult wild boars suggests that young animals are exposed to infection by the virus in the first years of life, while adults have already overcome the infection and are protected from reinfection."

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In the article, the experts explain that "although most human cases of hepatitis E are mild, HEV infection causes approximately 50,000 human deaths each year, and is particularly serious in pregnant women, with mortality rates of up to 30%, and can be transmitted to infants."

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Serra-Cobo, a member of the UB's Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, notes that "all the isolated viruses were classified within genotype 3 of HEV."

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