If You Pass This Medical Terminology Quiz, You’re Probably A Doctor
What are alveoli?
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When air enters a person’s lungs, alveoli are the tiny sacs inside those organs that actually make that air usable. There are between 300 and 500 million alveoli in the average adult’s lungs.
What are alveoli?
- Another name for the testicles
- Peptides in the stomach that break food down
- Another name for blood vessels in the brain
- Small air sacs in the lungs where oxygen is exchanged for carbon dioxide
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