alveoli

• “Within alveoli, oxygen from inhaled air is absorbed into the bloodstream in exchange for carbon dioxide waste that is exhaled.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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• “Lungs contain tiny groups of cells called alveoli, which are lined with a layer of epithelial cells that serve as a critical barrier.”

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• “The device, about the size of a pea, mimics the function of air sacs called alveoli, which transfer oxygen through a thin membrane from the lung to the blood.”

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• “The lung contains an intricate branching architecture of airways, blood vessels, and hundreds of millions of tiny sacs, called alveoli, where gases are exchanged.”

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