Alveolar ducts are the tiny end tubules of the branching airways that fill the lungs. Each lung holds approximately 1.5 to 2 million of them. The tubules divide into alveolar sacs at the distal end.
Prior to the alveolar ducts we have the terminal bronchioles.
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