Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
alveolus .
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- noun Plural form of
alveolus .
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Examples
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Within alveoli, oxygen from inhaled air is absorbed into the bloodstream in exchange for carbon dioxide waste that is exhaled.
Glossary 2010
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At the end of each bronchiole are tiny sacs called alveoli, each one of them lined with a thin layer of fluid that keeps each alveolus open.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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At the end of each bronchiole are tiny sacs called alveoli, each one of them lined with a thin layer of fluid that keeps each alveolus open.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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At the end of each bronchiole are tiny sacs called alveoli, each one of them lined with a thin layer of fluid that keeps each alveolus open.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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At the end of each bronchiole are tiny sacs called alveoli, each one of them lined with a thin layer of fluid that keeps each alveolus open.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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The lungs contain tiny air sacs known as alveoli and bronchioles, the narrow passages leading to the air sacs which become permanently distended with air under this condition.
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The lungs that look like a pair of pink sponges in our chest, for example, contain about 600 million tiny air sacks called alveoli and have 750 woven miles of blood vessels.
Wiccan Employee Files Sexual And Religious Discrimination Lawsuit Against Google Leena Rao 2005
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Finding its way into the smallest divisions of the lungs, called the alveoli, the air comes very near a large surface of blood.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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The lung is composed of networks of increasingly tiny airways which, if laid out end-to-end, would extend for 1,500 miles, as well as tiny air sacs called alveoli which, if flattened, would have the surface area of a tennis court.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Buried in the depths of healthy lung tissue, tiny groups of cells called alveoli stretch open to accommodate oxygen with each breath and then remove carbon dioxide during exhalation.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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