Meanings of air sacs in English

He recognized it by the particular mottling of its air sacs.

Belck quickly lost his buoyancy as he emptied his air sacs.

Emphysema involves the destruction of the air sacs and cells in lung tissue.

The Physiome Projectés working model of human lungs, complete with 300 million air sacs.

The air sacs in the lungs tend to stay collapsed.

The skins of their air sacs tightened, drawing the features of their tiny faces into caricatures.

By inflating their abdominal air sacs, they fool males into thinking their eggs are mature when they're not.

Hunter experimented on the uses of the air sacs, I know, but I have not his work at hand.

The lipid layer collects those invaders and toxins, binding to them and preventing them from reaching the air sacs.

In the lungs, the tiny air sacs called alveoli get damaged or filled with debris as the infection spreads.

The condition -when fine dust is lodged in air sacs in the lungs -is irreversible and incurable.

Pine pollen offers an all-natural multicavity structure with dual hollow air sacs, providing ample cargo capacity available for compound loading.

Fluid floods into the alveoli, the tiny thin-walled air sacs deep within the lungs where oxygen diffuses into the blood.

Treatment for severe emphysema, which damages air sacs in the lungs and limits patients' breathing ability, is currently limited to capsules and inhalers.

When this inflammation extends to the air sacs at the termini of the smallest branches of the bronchial tubes, the disease is broncho-pneumonia.

In studies of lungs from seven patients who died of COVID-19, researchers found damage to tiny air sacs in the lung called alveoli.