(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 adjective for alveolus (singular) or alveoli (plural) is alveolar.
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).
another word for air sac is alveolus.
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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.
The process involved in the passage of gas between the alveolus and the blood is called gas exchange. This occurs through diffusion, where oxygen moves from the alveolus into the capillaries and carbon dioxide moves from the capillaries into the alveolus.
No, the word 'alveoli' (the plural form of the noun alveolus) is a common noun, a general word for any small, angular cavity, pit, or hollow.
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