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