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What is the adjective for alveolus?
The adjective for alveolus (singular) or alveoli (plural) is alveolar.
What part of the mammary gland produces milk?
mammary alveolus
Why is the distance between the air in an alveolus and the blood in an alveolar capillary is less than 11000th of a millimetre?
Around the lungs,the blood is separated from the air inside each alveolus by only two cell layers; the cells making up the wall of the alveolus and the capillary wall itself. This is a distance of less than a thousandth of a millimetre. Because the air in the alveolus has a higer concentration of oxygen than the blood entering the capillary network, oxygen diffuses from the air across the wall of the alveolus and into the blood. That is why the distance is important.
How can the blockage of the alveolus be removed?
Alveolar macrophage cells work to clear particles from the alveolus by phagocytosis. If this process is overcome by continued build up of particles then the alveolus becomes damaged. Once an alveolus is blocked there isn't much you can do.
What is the singular form of the word alveoli?
One alveolus is a singular, tiny air sac of the lung, surrounded by a network of capillaries, and through which oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged. A cluster of such air sacs are alveoli (plural of alveolus).
What are the meaning ofalveoli?
of Alveolus
What is a alveolus surrounded by?
Capillaries
What is meaning of alveoli?
of Alveolus
What is the medical term meaning imperfect dilation of the lungs or the collapse of an alveolus?
Atelectasis is the imperfect dilation of the lungs or the collapse of an alveolus.
What is a sentence for the word alveolus?
(Alveoli are the jaw sockets for teeth, or the individual air sacs in the lungs.) "In childhood, more than one tooth can occupy an alveolus." "In each alveolus of the lung, gases are exchanged with the capillary blood."
The structure that is lined with cilia is the?
alveolus
How many alveolus in lungs?
They can't be counted. We're talking hundreds of thousands, here. PS: Alveolus is the singular. Alveoli is the plural.
