As the bronchial tubes pass through your lungs, they divide into smaller air passages called bronchioles. The bronchioles end in tiny balloon-like air sacs called alveoli. Your body has about 600 ...

MicroCT was used to measure the extent of emphysema (mean linear intercept), the number of terminal bronchioles per milliliter of lung volume, and the minimum diameters and cross-sectional areas ...

It travels down the trachea – or windpipe – into one of two bronchi and into bronchioles before entering one of millions of alveoli, where gaseous exchange takes place. When we breathe out ...

Bronchiolitis is a viral lung infection that causes inflammation in the smallest air passages in your lungs called bronchioles. Although it’s generally a childhood condition, bronchiolitis can ...

The bronchi branch out into smaller tubes called bronchioles. At the ends of the bronchioles are little air sacs called alveoli. At the end of the alveoli are capillaries, which are tiny blood ...

After injection into damaged mouse lung in vivo, human lung stem cells form human bronchioles, alveoli, and pulmonary vessels integrated structurally and functionally with the damaged organ.

A long-winded name for a chronic disease that slowly but surely destroys the smallest airways in your lungs—the bronchioles—unusable. Its origins are industrial, not food-related: in the early ...