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Yes the liver lies below the diaphragm on the right side of the abdomen.
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Does the heart lay inferior or superior to the diaphragm?
The heart lies superior to the diaphragm, between the two lungs.
What cavity contains the lungs and what structure divides it from the abdominal cavity?
The lungs and heart are found in the thoracic cavity and that cavity is superior to the diaphragm.
What major cavity is superior to the diaphragm?
In physiology superior means above. The cavity superior to the diaphragm is the thoracic cavity
Location of lungs in context of diaphragm?
The lungs are located anterior to the diaphragm. The diaphragm is the means by which the lungs inflate and deflate.
Is the lungs and the heart are located superior to the abdominal organs?
Yes, the heart and lungs are superior to the organs of the abdomen in that they are located above those organs.
Is the lungs above or below the diaphragm?
the lungs are above the diaphragm.
Is the liver superior to the diaphragm?
Quite the opposite; the diaphragm is superior to (above) the liver.
How the diaphragm helps the lungs?
Your diaphragm contracts and expands when you breath. When the diaphragm contracts, air rushes into the lungs. When the diaphragm relaxes, air is exhaled.
What muscles move the air in and out of the lungs?
I think you meant move air into the lungs. The muscle is the diaphragm.
What muscle in the lungs which contract and releases changing the volume of the lungs?
I believe that answer is the diaphragm. As the diaphragm moves up and down, it expands the lungs, and when the diaphragm goes up, the lungs release the air out again.
What is the importance of diaphragm?
The importance of diaphragm is that it helps the functionality of the lungs. The diaphragm will contract and expand so as it regulate the air pressure in the lungs.
Does the diaphragm lie inferior to the organs in the thoracic cavity?
Backwards... The diaphragm is superior to the stomach
