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Air sacs are
spaces within an
organism where there is the
constant presence of
air.
Among modern animals,
birds possess the most
air sacs (9–11), with...
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Strategic Air Command (
SAC) was a
United States Department of
Defense Specified Command and a
United States Air Force (USAF)
Major Command responsible...
- (pl. alveoli; from
Latin alveolus 'little cavity'), also
called an
air sac or
air space, is one of
millions of hollow,
distensible cup-shaped cavities...
- the rear the
posterior thoracic air sac, in the
middle the
anterior thoracic air sac and in
front the
clavicular air sac, in that
order gradually diminishing...
- Look up
sac or
SAC in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
SAC or
Sac may
refer to:
Santa Ana College, California, US San
Antonio College, Texas, US St. Andrew's...
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Air sac generally refers to an
organ or
portion of an
organ containing air within an animal's
respiratory system. It may
refer specifically to: Pulmonary...
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millions of
small air sacs; in
mammals and reptiles,
these are
called alveoli, and in birds, they are
known as atria.
These microscopic air sacs have a very...
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constructed for
their size and
contained openings for
air sacs (pneumatization). Such
air sacs were at the time
known only in
birds and pterosaurs, and...
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air sacs are
connected to the
airways of the
respiratory system, and the
pelican can keep its
air sacs inflated by
closing its glottis, but how
air sacs...
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argued against the
presence of
air sacs in dinosaurs.
Researchers have
presented evidence and
arguments for
air sacs in sauropods, "prosauropods", coelurosaurs...
