The tiny air pockets of Definition 26.3 are the alveoli: hundreds of millions of thin-walled bubbles clustered at the airways’ finest tips, each wrapped in fine blood vessels. Their summed surface is the half tennis court of Remark 26.4 — the human copy of Proposition 47.1’s large-thin-moist specification.
Biology · Glossary
What is Alveoli?
Also known as: alveolus