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Emphysema. The alveolar walls are destroyed and replaced with scar tissue, which cannot allow diffusion of oxygen from the alveolus to the capillary. It cannot be reversed.

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Q: What is characterized anatomically as the permanent abnormal enlargement of distal airway spaces and destruction of the alveolar walls?
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