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Definitions of alveoli in various dictionaries:
noun - a tiny sac for holding air in the lungs
noun - a bony socket in the alveolar ridge that holds a tooth
noun - a small anatomical cavity
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These microscopic air sacs in the lungs are the site of gas exchange |
In 1659 Italian anatomist Marcello Malpighi discovered that the lungs were made up of these tiny air sacs |
The name of these air cells in the lungs comes from the Latin for "cavity" |
Human lungs have millions of these tiny air sacs, where oxygen & carbon dioxide are exchanged |
Gas exchange occurs in these tiny, thin-walled sacs in the lungs |
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Plural form of alveolus. |
a small cavity, pit, or hollow, in particular: |
Any of the many tiny air sacs of the lungs which allow for rapid gaseous exchange. |
The bony socket for the root of a tooth. |
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A pulmonary Alveolus (plural: alveoli, from Latin alveolus, "little cavity") is a hollow cavity found in the lung parenchyma, and is the basic unit of ventilation. Lung alveoli are the ends of the respiratory tree, branching from either alveolar sacs or alveolar ducts, which like alveoli are both sites of gas exchange with the blood as well. Alveoli are particular to mammalian lungs. Different structures are involved in gas exchange in other vertebrates. The alveolar membrane is the gas exchange surface. Carbon dioxide rich blood is pumped from the rest of the body into the capillaries that surround the alveoli where, through diffusion, carbon dioxide is released and oxygen absorbed. |