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Is a sheet of muscle located beneath the lungs that is used to expand and contrast the chest cavity of mammal?
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What is the scientific law of expand and contrast?
Expand- Hot Contrast- Cold
What muscle contracts to expand the chest cavity?
The Diaphragm
What is the contrast to reduce?
increase,add, expand
What muscle or muscles expand the chest cavity by rotating the ribs upward contibuting to inspiration?
What muscle expand the chest cavity by rotating the ribs upward, contributing to inspiration
What muscle expand chest cavity upward during inspiration?
The diaphragm (a sheet of muscle underneath the ribcage) and intercostal muscles (located between your ribs).
What happens to the lungs when the chest cavity becomes bigger?
The lungs expand.
Eroding activity of this cell remodels and expand the medullary cavity?
osteoclast
Is the diaphragm located right below lungs?
Your diaphragm is located below your lungs. When you relax your muscles, your diaphragm is shaped like a dome.
What two parts help expand and contract the chest cavity while breathing?
The lungs and diaphragm.
What happens to lungs when you inhale?
what happens when you inhale is that air goes into your lungs and your lungs get bigger ...Actually, your diaphragm moves to expand the volume of your thoracic cavity, which pulls a partial vacuum on your lungs, causing them to expand FIRST...and THEN the partial vacuum created by your expanded lungs causes air to move into them. When you breath out, it causes the reverse to occur.
What muscl is responsible for breathing?
Your diaphragm is the muscle beneath your lungs that expand and retract, helping pump oxygen in and out of your body.
How does the expansion of the chest wall expand the lungs during inspiration?
the air goes up to the chest cavity. Hope this helps you!
