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What is the smelling of fluid in the alveoli and the branchioles?
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What is the serious infection in which fluids collect in the alveoli?
Pneumonia is when fluid collects in the alveoli
What is the fluid in the alveoli called?
Pneumonia.
What is the fluid that lines the alveoli is produced by?
what is the name of the liquid layer that lines the alveoli
Reduces the surface tension of the fluid in the alveoli?
surfactant
What term describes a fine crackling or bubbling sounds when there is fluid in the alveoli?
Crackles: Fine crackling or bubbling sounds, commonly heard during inspiration when there is fluid in the alveoli; also called rales.
The alveoli in the lungs exchange oxygen with what fluid inside the body?
blood
What do the lungs contain?
Alveoli, pleura fluid, lung tissue, blood
How does partial pressure affect the movement of oxygen from the alveoli to the blood?
Partial pressure affects the movement of oxygen from the alveoli to the blood because it is the main driving force for oxygen movement in the lungs.Oxygen passes from the air to the fluid within the alveoli, into the cell of the alveoli.
Which serious lung infection causes the alveoli to fill up with fluid?
Pneumonia
The fluid that lines the alveoli contains a substance that reduces surface tension known as?
surfactant
Which American animal sprays out a foul-smelling fluid to defend itself?
a skunk.
What happens in pulmonary edema?
Normally very little to no fluid enters the alveoli of the lungs. In pulmonary edema there is increased pressure in the pulmonary veins. So fluid escapes in the alveoli of the lungs, making transfer of the oxygen impossible from such alveoli. Patient feels suffocated and starve for oxygen, in pulmonary edema.
