0
Does your chest expand because your lungs inflate or do your lungs inflate because your chest expands?
Wiki User
∙ 10y ago
There are no muscles in the lungs that help inhale or exhale, this is the job of the diaphragm.
Wiki User
∙ 10y ago
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
Why would physicians insert a tube into the chest to re-inflate the lungs?
because the lungs can not re-inflate themselves
What part of your lungs inflate and deflate?
Action of the diaphragm causes healthy lungs to inflate in whole like a balloon.Doctors have said that the average person does not breath properly, thereby not filling our lungs with sufficient air to help purify our blood. We should do daily exercises of deep beathing or get into the habit of breathing more deeply than we do.
What is an accumulation of air in the pleural space causing the lung to not expand fully or to collapse?
This is a pneumothorax or collapsed lung. It is generally brought on by a puncture in the chest that allows air into the chest cavity outside the lung. As the diaphragm expands, air is drawn in through the hole in the chest wall, and the lung will not fully expand. After a short period and continued respiration, the lung will not be able to inflate. Gas exchange will then be seriously reduced or not occur at all, and the victim willl rapidly begin to suffocate. Use the link below for more information.
What happens to the volume of your chest cavity when you inhale?
When you inhale the volume increases, because the chest cavity expands to hold your breath.It increases.
What happens to your chest when you breathe?
It expands
What happens to your chest when you breathe in?
It expands
Why does your chest expand when you inhale?
Short answer: to let air in. Medium answer: a big pint glass holds more water than a little tiny shot glass. The pint glass has more room, more volume. Your expanded chest holds more air so air rushes to fill the space. Longer answer: when you breathe in your intercostal muscles contract pulling your rib cage up and out. At the same time your diaphragm, the muscular sheet at the bottom of your lungs pulls down.
What happens to your lungs when you inhale?
the chest cavity expands.
How does a doctor repair a collapsed lung?
The doctor will make an incision under the arm, to insert a chest tube. This chest tube will drain off any blood in the lungs, allowing it to re inflate.
What will happen to our chest size when we take a deep breath?
Our chest will expand.
If your chest expands you would predict the intrapulmonary pressure to?
Decrease
What makes the lungs operate?
its all by pressure, our diaphragm (muscle in our chest) contracts and relaxes causing high and low pressure and makes the lungs expand etc, think of a balloon in a jar and you can controll the pressure on the outside of the balloon, it will inflate and deflte
