Sentences with phrase «when air sacs»

The easiest vowel sound to make when air sacs are present is «uh.»

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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.

«Air sacs make sounds louder and lower - pitched, just the way a musical instrument sounds lower and louder when it's bigger,» de Boer continues.

Influenza pneumonia results when a flu infection spreads to alveolar air sacs deep within 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.

When inhaled, the nanoparticles enter deep into the lungs, potentially all the way into the air sacs that move oxygen into our bloodstream during the normal breathing process.

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.

Damage to the placenta (the sac that provides air and food to the baby when it is growing inside you)