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How do muscle below your lungs and between your ribs help you inhale?
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When you breathe in, or inhale, your diaphragm contracts (tightens) and moves downward. This increases the space in your chest cavity, into which your lungs expand.
The intercostal muscles between your ribs also help enlarge the chest cavity. They contract to pull your rib cage both upward and outward when you inhale.
Cecile Heidenreich
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Which muscle allows you to inhale and exhale?
The muscle is the diaphram and it is located just beneath your lungs.
What is the action of the muscles that cause air to come into the lungs?
The action is the flattening of your diaphragm, or the muscle that helps your lungs inhale and exhale.
How do your muscles below your lungs and between your ribs help you inhale?
When you breathe in, or inhale, your diaphragm contracts (tightens) and moves downward. This increases the space in your chest cavity, into which your lungs expand.The intercostal muscles between your ribs also help enlarge the chest cavity. They contract to pull your rib cage both upward and outward when you inhale.
How do lung intake oxygen?
Simple answer. All your life your lungs inhale and exhale oxygen. This is facilitated by the diaphragm, a muscle just below the lungs. When this muscle moves down a partial vacuum is created allowing the lungs to inflate filling the space created by the moving diaphragm, it then moves up again compressing the lungs and therefore expelling the air in them.
What is the action of the muscles that causes air to come into the lungs?
The action is the flattening of your diaphragm, or the muscle that helps your lungs inhale and exhale.
What is the largest dome-shaped muscle that works with your lungs to allow you to inhale and exhale air?
diaphragm
When the diaphragm moves up do you inhale?
No, as you inhale the diaphragm is contracting and pulling down, expanding the lungs. As you breathe out, the muscle relaxes and rises up again.
Where can you find a diagram of human lungs?
The diaphragm of the lung is the muscle below the lungs that stretches the lungs, helping them expand when you inhale. When you exhale, it helps push air up out of the lungs.
The lungs contain elastic muscle tissue to permit inhalation?
It allows the lungs to expand when you inhale and they shrink when you exhale.
What happens to pressure in the lungs when tyou inhale?
the lungs recoil/contract to push air out using its smooth muscle
What happens when the diaphragm and the rib cage muscles relax?
The diaphragm relaxes during EXHALATION. Your diaphragm flattens when you inhale, creating more space for the lungs to take in more air.
What causes the air pressure in your lungs to decrease and make you inhale?
When you inhale, oxygen fills your lungs. Next the oxygen diffuses out of your lungs into your bloodstream. The diffusion of oxygen from the lungs causes less pressure in your lungs signaling your brain that you need to inhale.
