alveoli

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"Alveoli are like small balloons that inflate and deflate with air during respiration."

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Date: Mar 12 2015 7:14 PM

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"In this analogy, the alveoli are like the leaves of the tree "

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Date: Mar 12 2015 7:16 PM

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"The alveoli are like a bunch of grapes on the end of the bronchial tubes, and with one of the diseases there are less of them "

Writer: John Durbin Husher

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Date: Mar 12 2015 7:16 PM

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"Alveoli are like tiny bags of air with walls so thin that gases can pass through them. There are around 300 million alveoli in the lungs "

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Date: Mar 12 2015 7:18 PM

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"Alveoli are like rubber bands. They are able to stretch wide open to receive the air we breathe in and then collapse and push air out. "

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Date: Mar 12 2015 7:19 PM

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"The alveoli are like the loading docks where trucks pick up their load. Capillaries are so small, in some places, that only *one* RBC at a time can get through!"

Writer: Delos Johnson

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Date: Mar 12 2015 7:21 PM

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Writer: Lucrezia

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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated

Date: Mar 12 2015 7:22 PM