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- noun Plural form of
alveole .
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Examples
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You can experience hypercapnia when your blood cannot exchange CO2 by Oxygen at the respiratoty bronchial alveoles.
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For all faces, the minimum thickness of solid material surrounding the alveoles or hollow blocks should be as follows:
Chapter 7 in each case the machines were broken and were not operational. 1987
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Caverns, holes and alveoles are tolerated on the same terms as smoothness.
Chapter 7 in each case the machines were broken and were not operational. 1987
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