Alveoli in a sentence

Type I cells provide 95% of the surface area of each alveoli and are flat (" squamous "), and Type II cells generally cluster in the corners of the alveoli and have a cuboidal shape.

The alveoli, which are lined with capillaries, are where the oxygen that we breathe in passes to the blood and travels to sustain the tissues throughout the body.

Emphysema occurs when the tiny alveoli — or air sacs — inside the lungs become damaged and stop functioning properly.

Damaged tissue leads to a leakage of fluid and cells, which fill up the alveoli like so many water balloons, decreasing the amount of oxygen they can carry.

For now, I imagine my brothers’ lungs, each of their two billowy sacs rich in oxygenated blood fighting to make its way into the spongy alveoli where the virus has established a beachhead of phlegm and fluid that must be expunged.

Pneumonia is a very general term for inflammation of the alveoli that results in the accumulation of fluid and other gunk.

Pneumonia is characterized by shortness of breath combined with a cough and affects tiny air sacs in the lungs, called alveoli, Viscidi said.

The research team explored the matter by focusing on studies of the lungs where breathing creates pressure inside tiny airs sacs called alveoli.

As these pass by alveoli carbon dioxide is exchanged for oxygen.

At birth the lungs are very undeveloped with only a fraction of the alveoli present.

Blood passes through small capillaries next to the alveoli in the lung, receives oxygen, and travels back to the heart.

Cause Oxygen passively diffuses in the lung alveoli according to a pressure gradient.

Malpighi, while studying the structure of the lung, noticed its membranous alveoli and the hair-like connections between veins and arteries, which he named capillaries.

The alveoli continue to form until the third year.

The individual alveoli are tightly wrapped in capillaries and it is here that gas exchange actually occurs.

The infection of herbivores (and occasionally humans) by the inhalational route normally proceeds as follows: Once the spores are inhaled, they are transported through the air passages into the tiny air sacs (alveoli) in the lungs.

The lungs contain the respiratory tract and its lining, which terminate in alveoli, the tissue in between (called interstitium or parenchyma ), and veins, arteries, nerves and lymphatic vessels.

The sea lion allows the alveoli to be compressed by the increasing water pressure thus forcing the surface air into cartilage lined airway just before the gas exchange surface.

They remove substances which deposit in the alveoli including loose red blood cells that have been forced out from blood vesels.

This gas exchange takes place in the alveoli during breathing.