While auscultating a patient's lungs, a nurse recalls the alveoli in the apices of the lungs are _____ than alveoli in the bases
a. larger
b. more numerous
c. more compliant
d. less perfused
ANS: A
The alveoli in the upper portions, or apices, of the lungs contain a greater residual volume of gas and are larger and less numerous, not more numerous, than those in the lower portions. The apices are less compliant but better perfused.
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