Sentence examples for alveolus from inspiring English sources

See also pulmonary alveolus.

Cleft palate may extend into the gum ridge (alveolus), thereby affecting teeth that are adjacent to the cleft.

The diameter of these air spaces (alveoli) in lower vertebrates is larger than in mammals: The alveolus in the frog is about 10 times the diameter of the human alveolus.

These infants usually suffer from a disorder called respiratory distress syndrome, in which the surface tension inside the alveolus is altered so that the alveoli are perpetually collapsed.

Inspired air and blood flow normally are distributed uniformly, and each alveolus receives approximately equal quantities of both.

The walls of the acini surround a small central cavity known as an alveolus.

The branches 3 mm and less in diameter are known as bronchioles, which lead to minute air sacs called alveoli (see pulmonary alveolus), where the actual gas molecules of oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged between the respiratory spaces and the blood capillaries.

Pulmonary alveolus, plural pulmonary alveoli, any of the small air spaces in the lungs where carbon dioxide leaves the blood and oxygen enters it.

I speak Russian and tested some of the prescriptions, and found that I never touch the upper teeth with my tongue nor anything that comes up when I google "alveolus".

The reply from a bilingual reporter was very thorough, discussing not only specific letters ("in pronouncing T, D, N the tongue must touch the upper teeth, not the alveolus like in English"), but the preferred mind-set ("perhaps because we tend to be lazy, the mouth muscles are not so tense as in speaking English").

The membrane is composed of several types of protein, including collagens and glycoproteins, and it is found in just about every kind of tissue: skin, eye, muscle, the lining of the capillaries, the glomerulus of the kidney, the alveolus of the lung.