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Pulmonary Alveoli

"Pulmonary Alveoli" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Small polyhedral outpouchings along the walls of the alveolar sacs, alveolar ducts and terminal bronchioles through the walls of which gas exchange between alveolar air and pulmonary capillary blood takes place.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Pulmonary Alveoli" by people in this website by year, and whether "Pulmonary Alveoli" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 50 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2006
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