Sentences with phrase «tiny air sacs»

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.

Alveoli, which are tiny air sacs similar to balloons, are forming in your little one's lungs.

The other type terminated in smaller endings farther away from the main airways, inside tiny air sacs called the alveolar space.

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.

«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.

In March University of Wisconsin virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka looked for H5N1 receptors in the human respiratory tract and found them only deep within the lungs, on the tiny air sacs through which oxygen passes into blood.

Inhaled diacetyl, the chemical that gives microwave popcorn its sinful buttery flavor, is suspected to gradually inflame and scar the lungs» tiny air sacs, making it increasingly difficult for sufferers to exhale.

Without surgery to remove the abnormal lung lobe, its tiny air sacs may burst.