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The number of alveoli in humans

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Together, the lungs contain approximately 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi) of airways and 300 to 500 million alveoli.
In a series of five single human lungs from three males and two females, aged 8 to 74 years, a very constant number of approximately 300 million alveoli were found

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