alveolus
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In one example, six nests were stacked within a single alveolus, arranged one inside another like Russian dolls.
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026
A focus-stacked picture of a tiny, 3D-printed alveolus, or artificial lung.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 16, 2019
The partial pressure of oxygen in the affected alveolus increases.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
As oxygen diffuses across the respiratory membrane from the alveolus to the capillary, it also diffuses into the red blood cell and is bound by hemoglobin.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Alveolar length of upper molar tooth-row.—from the most posterior point of the alveolus of the third upper molar to the most anterior point of the alveolus of the first upper molar.
From Subspeciation in the Meadow Mouse, Microtus montanus, in Wyoming and Colorado by Anderson, Sydney
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
