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  1. alveolinoun

    Plural form of alveolus.

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  1. alveoli

    Alveolus (; pl. alveoli, adj. alveolar) is a general anatomical term for a concave cavity or pit.

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  1. Alveoli

    of Alveolus

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  1. alveoli

    Plural form of the word alveolus.

    Alveoli are air sacs in the lung that give the tissue a honeycomb appearance and change its surface area for the exchange of oxygen.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 7, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of alveoli in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of alveoli in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of alveoli in a Sentence

  1. L.F. Magister:

    Animals that have more defense forms are also the most sensitive to attack, such as the turtles on their hulls or tracks, that when they leave their cocoons, they become one of the most beautiful insects. Such are human beings. They spend the rest of their lives in fear. Close their hearts made alveoli to the world in order to protect themselves and hoping that one day someone might free them.

  2. Marc Moss:

    Im not going to say the alveoli are normal and the surfactant is normal, but when someone has hypoxia out of proportion to what you would see in the lung, that makes lung specialists think there is a problem on the blood vessel side.

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