air-sacs

I would rather be tortured than listen to these two air-sacs.

Think Progress » O’Reilly: It’s so awful when people intrude on your vacation with their cameras. 2010

Flocks of gaily colored flumeeji, their oblong air-sacs fully inflated and their bulging eyes scanning the riverbed below, drifted past, heading northward.

Sliding Scales Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

A post-mortem examination of a fowl that has died of this disease shows the mites on the surface of the lining membrane of the air-sacs.

Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

They are air-sacs, and are connected with the breathing or respiration of the larvæ.

Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton

After the sixth month the air-sacs begin to make their appearance on the infundibula in the form of minute pouches.

XI. Splanchnology. 1. The Respiratory Apparatus 1918

But his most important work consists in the discovery of the capillaries and the air-sacs in the lungs, and of the structure of glands and glandular organs.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

The final branches of the pulmonary arteries, the lung capillaries, lie in the walls of these air-sacs, and are separated from the air by an extremely thin membrane through which the oxygen diffuses into, and the carbon dioxide escapes from, the blood.

Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

They inflate their bodies, having not only large lungs, but air-sacs in connection with them.

The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897

We find that his normal temperature is about two degrees higher than ours, and that he breathes faster, and that his bones are lighter, and that his body is full of air-sacs, fitting him to fly.

Days Off And Other Digressions Henry Van Dyke 1892

It removes the quickly used-up substances from every part, and the choke-damp or carbonic acid which would stop the whole machine, and kill us, were it not got rid of through the lungs as the blood hurries through the walls of these air-sacs, whilst other used-up materials are carried by it to the kidneys and passed out of the body through them.

More Science From an Easy Chair 1888