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...passages," says Dr. Thomas Petty, a pulmonologist at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver and at Chicago's Rush University. Swelling and inflammation trigger bronchiospasm, a clenching of the muscles surrounding the air passages, further choking off the oxygen supply. Inadequate oxygen in turn damages the alveoli, the sacs of cells that transfer oxygen into the bloodstream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: The Other Lung Disease | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

...order to cause disease, at least 8,000 to 10,000 spores need to lodge deep in the lungs, in the tiniest air sacs known as alveoli. The warm, moist environment, and possibly the concentration of carbon dioxide in the lungs, stimulates the bacterium to emerge from its protective spore. As each bacterium reproduces, it releases toxins, which eventually spread throughout the body and destroy tissue and organs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Anthrax Is Weaponized... | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

Avery and Mead concluded that something which regulates surface tension in the lung must be absent in those babies with hyaline membrane disease. If unregulated, surface tension causes alveoli--the air-carrying sacs of lungs--to collapse, followed by the collapse of the lungs...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: Helping to Fight Infant Respiratory Disease | 11/12/1991 | See Source »

...used X-ray plates. "Jazz on Bones," he and his friends called that marriage of music and medicine. "From the moment I heard a recording of Melancholy Baby . . ." he recalls, "I couldn't get enough of the revelation coming to me through the shadows of ribs and alveoli, namely, that 'every cloud must have a silver lining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Silver Lining IN SEARCH OF MELANCHOLY BABY | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

Ward explained that his conclusions were based on an examination of slides, and that such investigation did not permit analysis of the chemical content of the fluid within the alveoli...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Fetus Breathed Before Dying, Pathologist Tells Edelin Jury | 1/29/1975 | See Source »

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