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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 above or below the diaphragm?
the lungs are above the diaphragm.
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.
Which of these is a muscle lungs nostrils diaphragm pharynx?
Diaphragm
How does the diaphragm work to allow the lungs to inflate?
The diaphragm is a thin band of muscle under the lungs. When it contracts, the lungs are pulled up and out, reducing the air pressure and causing oxygen to be drawn in. When the diaphragm relaxes, the carbon dioxide is pushed out of the lungs.
Is the diaphragm superior to the lungs?
Yes the liver lies below the diaphragm on the right side of the abdomen.
When air moves into the lungs when the diaphragm muscles do what?
The diaphragm moves down to make the lungs expand (inhalation)
What is a muscle that forces the lungs to expand and contract and bring air into and out of the lungs?
Lungs do not actively expand and contract by themselves. A muscle below the lungs called the diaphragm acts as a bellow, creating negative pressure within the abdominal cavity that holds the lungs to allow air to rush in and out the lungs.
What is Diaphragm?
Lungs do not contain muscle tissue. air enters your lungs when the muscular diaphragm contracts, pulling your ribs up and out. The diaphragm relaxes when you exhale.
