Hollow cavity found in the lungs.
Sinònims
Examples for "alveoli"
Examples for "alveoli"
1Stretching of alveoli during lung inflation is the main trigger for surfactant secretion.
2The rapid crescendo of pain as her lungs expanded and her alveoli exploded.
3Plugged alveoli attenuate the rays, and so appear on film as white patches.
4Between them, the lungs have somewhere in the neighborhood of six hundred million alveoli.
5Volatile substances can be released via alveoli, bronchial mucosa or from the upper airways.
1Two patients developed distant metastases and one patient developed a second primary in the lower alveolus.
2The monolayer surface tension is continuously regulated by the alveolus compression and expansion and protects the alveoli from collapsing.
3Pertaining to an alveolus.
Translations for pulmonary alveolus