alveoli

• "We'll keep a colony working in your lungs, cleaning scar tissue out of your alveoli, and before you leave the hospital you'll need to be green-screened How's the rest of the detail?" —  F ;SF - vol 101 issue 03 - September 2001
• Emphysema - breathlessness caused by damage to the air sacs (alveoli), also known as "lung rot". —  American Chronicle
• Since pulmonary fibrosis has progressive scarring and an inflammatory reaction in the alveoli, therapy with systemic enzymes that digest fibrotic tissue and block the inflammatory reaction should be a safe rational approach.
• Eventually, adhesions and scar tissue "glue" together localized areas of the tiny saccules of alveoli (small cells containing air in the lungs) so they no longer expand to fill with air, nor are they able to completely empty of residual air. —  TheHorse.com News
• The blood that leaves the heart chambers with impure blood passes through the alveoli, exchanging the carbon dioxide concentrated blood for that charged with oxygen.

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