Alveoli Radiology Reference Article

alveoli Pulmonary ventilation provides air to the alveoli for this gas exchange process At the respiratory membrane, where the alveolar and capillary walls meet, gases

Alveoli are thin-walled, sac-like structures lined by a single layer of flattened squamous epithelial cells: type I pneumocytes This extremely thin nature of alveoli The stresses resulting from surface tension in the alveoli act in a way that the inter-alveolar septa would pile up in the corner of the