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The amount of air that moves when you inhale or exhale is referred to as?
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When you inhale which organ contracts and moves down?
Your 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.
Does the diaphragm need to go down to breath in?
The diaphragm moves down and contracts, flattening itself, when you inhale.
What is the role diaphragm during inhalaton and exhalation?
during the exhalation phase, the diaphragm relaxes, that is resuming its dome shaped position. The intercostal muscle likewise relax and the rib cage moves down deflate . ACHECHE from:Alkenneth Angelico O. Alderite
What position is the diaphragm when relaxes?
In the human body, the diaphragm separates the thoracic and abdominal cavities. When a person sits in an erect position, the diaphragm moves in an up and down motion, sort iof like an accordion.
What takes place you initate and exhale?
When you inhale, your diaphragm contracts and moves downward, and when you exhale, your diaphragm relaxes and moves upward.
Is breathing the process in which air moves in and out of lungs?
To breath in it is inhale, to breath out is exhale.
What happens to the diaphragm when you inhale and when you exhale?
When the diaphragm contracts and moves lower, the chest cavity enlarges, reducing the pressure outside the lungs. To equalize the pressure, air enters the lungs. When the diaphragm relaxes and moves back up, the elasticity of the lungs and chest wall pushes air out of the lungs.
What layer of muscles move up and down when you breath?
The diaphragm is a muscle that moves or pushes up your lung when you exhale and down when you inhale in order to allow more space for oxygen to fill your lung. Also, your chest expands as you breath in and relax as you exhale.
What muscle compress and move downward when you inhale?
the diaphragm. It is right above the heart and lungs, and expands and contracts when you breathe in and out. You can almost feel it move down a little, when you release air.
When you exhale does your diaphragm lower?
The diaphragm moves up when you exhale.
How and why air moves into and out of lungs when you inhale and exhale?
When you breathe in, your diaphragm will contract, causing your lungs to expand and suck in air. When you breathe out, your diaphragm will relax, causing your lungs to shrink and force out air.
What happens to the rib cage when inhaling and exhaling?
it expands as we inhale and contrasts as we exhale...this allows our lungs to fill up with air without pushing on out rib cage the rib cage moves up and out when inhaling and moves down and in when exhaling.
What are the steps of when you exhale?
When you exhale the diaghphram moves up and in and this proccess squeezes the air out of the lungs
What force cause air to move in an out of the lungs?
inhale:- the air pressure in the lungs decreases and air moves in. exhale:-air pressure in the lungs increases and air moves out.
When my diaphragm contracts and moves downward?
When you inhale.
What happens to your ribs when you exhale?
It moves inward.your ribs will be bend out
