De Boer found that
air sacs also interfered with the workings of the vocal cords, making consonants trickier.
Not exact matches
Air sacs may
also have enabled creatures to make long, repeated calls without hyperventilating.
«Results
also identified mechanisms regulating the numbers and phenotype of macrophages in the tiny
air sacs of the lungs (called alveoli) in health and disease,» said Takuji Suzuki, MD, PhD, the study's first author and a scientist in the Division of Neonatology and Pulmonary Biology at Cincinnati Children's.
The bat family,
also called
sac - winged bats, have bag - shaped glands in each wing that are open to the
air.
Neutrophils can kill the bacteria, but they
also cause harm by releasing inflammatory compounds that damage the lung's
air sacs.
«This was a case of an upper GI examination, but we are
also able to examine the trachea,
air sacs, lungs, and lower GI tract.
From the second: «
Also consider: we would die if we did not breathe in such a way as to retain very close to 65,000 ppm (6.5 %) of CO2 in the alveoli (tiny
air sacs) of our lungs»