Sentences with phrase «smaller air sacs»

A chest infection affects your lungs, either in the larger airways (bronchitis) or in the smaller air sacs (pneumonia)...
Green means healthy, yellow means a reduced ability to push air out of the lung's small air sacs, and red means severely reduced ability.
The investigators focused on alveoli, the small air sacs at the ends of lung airways.

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For example, the dinosaurs had weight - bearing pillarlike legs, small heads, and bones peppered with air sacs.
The drug is a spray of nanoparticles, which are small enough to be absorbed through the lungs» air sacs and into the bloodstream.
They can occur as a single cyst or multiple cysts, and are small sacs filled with fluid, air, or organic debris that can cause pain and discomfort.
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 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).
Historically, veterinarians would examine the reproductive organs of birds by inserting a small camera into the bird's network or air sacs, through which they could visualize the organs directly.
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