Sentences with phrase «air sacs in»

They have air sacs in their neck that can inflate to allow them to float as if they were wearing life preservers.

By holding your breath, you are giving it ample time to travel deep into your bronchial tubes and replace the stale air trapped inside the millions of air sacs in your lungs with new, fresh oxygen.

This health scare, described by MedicineNet.com as «a serious and irreversible condition in which the tiny air sacs in the lungs become scarred», was caused by a compound named diacetyl that gives the popcorn its buttery aroma.

But when these invaders pass through to one or both lungs (often after you've had a cold or the flu), or if your immune system is too weak to defend against an infectious assault, tiny air sacs in your lungs, called alveoli, become inflamed and fill with fluid or pus.

It is, however, known that the lung interstitium — the connective tissue between the air sacs in the lower part of the lung — is affected.

The key, it turns out, is how the melon, the skull and air sacs in the head work together, forcing the sound wave in a single direction.

Not exact matches

Surfactant is a naturally occurring chemical needed to inflate the tiny air sacs (called alveoli) in baby's lungs when he or she is ready to breathe.

In the last few weeks of the pregnancy, the lungs will grow alveoli, or those air sacs that allow the exchange of oxygen, but they are not a lot.

It's Good to Have Soapy Lungs The tiny air - sacs in your lungs known as alveoli are coated with a surfactant, a soap - like substance.

There they could exacerbate asthma, bronchitis — an inflammation of the tubes that carry air to and from the lungs — and emphysema — a disease in which the lungs» many air sacs are destroyed, leaving patients short of breath.

In modern humans, who lack air sacs, that bone supports the tongue muscles, enabling a wide range of vocalizations.

Lucy could not speak the way we do, because she most likely had air sacs, balloon - shaped organs that attach to an extension of the hyoid bone, says Bart de Boer, an expert in the evolution of speech at Vrije University in Brussels.

All primates have an air sac except humans, in whom it has shrunk to a vestigial organ.

Once influenza spreads deep into the lungs, the body's own immune response can prove harmful, resulting in severe damage to the alveolar air sacs.

«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.

«The heart is just a pump,» says William Federspiel of the University of Pittsburgh, whereas the lungs contain a complex network of branching air sacs permitting gases to diffuse in and out of the blood.

In the second study in Science, researchers from Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, created a chip 1 to 2 centimeters long in which a 1 millimeter - wide channel, coated with human lung cells on the inside and overlaid with human blood capillaries on the outside, mimicked the air sacs, or alveoli, of the lungIn the second study in Science, researchers from Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, created a chip 1 to 2 centimeters long in which a 1 millimeter - wide channel, coated with human lung cells on the inside and overlaid with human blood capillaries on the outside, mimicked the air sacs, or alveoli, of the lungin Science, researchers from Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, created a chip 1 to 2 centimeters long in which a 1 millimeter - wide channel, coated with human lung cells on the inside and overlaid with human blood capillaries on the outside, mimicked the air sacs, or alveoli, of the lungin Boston, Massachusetts, created a chip 1 to 2 centimeters long in which a 1 millimeter - wide channel, coated with human lung cells on the inside and overlaid with human blood capillaries on the outside, mimicked the air sacs, or alveoli, of the lungin which a 1 millimeter - wide channel, coated with human lung cells on the inside and overlaid with human blood capillaries on the outside, mimicked the air sacs, or alveoli, of the lungs.

His actuators are made from soft polymer materials called elastomers, and his first prototype, a six - fingered gripper, resembles a starfish: when air is pumped into it through a thin tube, air sacs within expand, causing its digits to contract in a gentle grasping motion.

PH can result in fatal complications, due to improperly formed alveoli or air sacs that are not capable of generating air exchange.

This flesh rendering of the predator Aerosteon shows its lungs (red) and air sacs (other colors) as they might have been in life about 85 million years ago.

March 6, 2018 — Researchers identified a type of stem cell that produces new air sac cells in lung tissue.

Patients with COPD have airflow obstruction that is caused either by destruction of the air sacs that exchange gas in the lungs (emphysema) and / or inflammation of the airways (chronic bronchitis).

To make these humanlike sounds, Noc had to vary the air pressure in his nasal tract while adjusting liplike valves and over-inflating sacs under his blowhole.

Tobacco smoke inflames and irritates the airways in your lungs and gradually damages the air sacs that provide oxygen to the blood.

The influenza virus affects the capillaries in the lungs, so the dog may cough up blood and have trouble breathing if there is bleeding into the air sacs.

After medication is given to kill adult heartworms (called an adulticide), the death of the heartworms can result in severe damage to the lung capillaries (small blood vessels in the lungs) and loss of blood to the air sacs (alveoli).

The animal presents with a high fever and may have trouble breathing as blood from the capillaries in the lungs fills the air sacs.

The virus effects the eyes (conjunctival sac), pharynx (tube that extends from the nose to the wind pipe), wind pipe (trachea), the large air passages of the lungs (bronchi) and small airway tubes in the lungs (bronchioles).

«Birds have a unique respiratory anatomy called air sacs, which results in particular sensitivity to fragrances and aerosolized chemicals,» says Dr. Justine Lee, Associate Director of Veterinary Services at Pet Poison Helpline.

The former describes air inside of the lung's supportive tissues, while the latter refers to the increase in size of the alveoli, or miniscule air sacs.

Situated in a tree - lined Cul de Sac, the guest house offers 3 air - conditioned rooms...

Golden Valley seniors Cyrus Allen (15) and August Tangaan (24) jump in the air during players introductions before a CIF Sac - Joaquin Section Division III playoff game against Manteca at Golden Valley High School in Merced, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018.

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»

In the East China Sea, it could be seafloor compressed air sacs or even stored hydro from China's west.

His office's case against SAC capital, for example, resulted in the largest fine ever paid in the history of insider trading prosecution and served as the inspiration for the television series Billions, currently airing on Showtime.

A chest infection affects your lungs, either in the larger airways (bronchitis) or in the smaller air sacs (pneumonia)...