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The muscle that separates the abdominopelvic cavity from the pleural cavity is what?
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The muscle that separates the abdomen pelvic cavity and the pleural cavity is the diaphragm.
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What type of muscle is found at the bottum of your chest?
The diaphragm separates the thoracic cavity from the abdominopelvic cavity. It is composed of skeletal muscle.
What is the dome-shaped muscle that aids in breathing?
The muscle you are referring to is the diaphragm. It also separates the thoracic cavity from the abdominopelvic cavity.
What organ separates the ventral body cavity?
Your question is not clear, but the diaphragm is the muscle that divided the abdomen from the thorax (the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity). Ventral is term that is used mostly in veterinary medicine and it refers to the side of the body that has the belly button.
What body cavities are divided by the diaphragm?
Major: Dorsal Body Cavity & Ventral Body Cavity Subdivision of Dorsal: cranial cavity & vertebral cavity Subdivision of Ventral: Thoracic Cavity, Abdominopelvic Cavity, Abdominal Cavity, Pelvic Cavity
What muscle is separating the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity?
The thoracic cavity is separated from the abdominal cavity by the diaphragm. This is a broad flat muscle. (muscular) diaphragmThe diaphragm is a muscle that separate the thoracic from the abdominal cavity. The pelvis is the lowest part of the abdominal cavity and it has no physical separation from it Diaphragm
What separates the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity and prefroms an important function in respiration?
diaphragm muscle
The lungs are housed in the pleural cavity that is bound at the bottom by a thin layer of muscle called?
diaphragm
What is the strong wall of muscle that separates the chest cavity from the stomach?
diaphragm.
Is the diaphragm a wall of muscle that separates the thoracic and abdominal cavities and aids us to breathe?
Yes, the diaphragm is a wall of muscle that separates the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity and aids us to breathe. It belongs in the Muscular and the Respiratory systems.
What muscle separates the thorax and abdomen and aids in breathing?
The muscle that separates the thorax and abdomen and aids in breathing is called the diaphragm. It is a dome-shaped muscle that contracts and relaxes to regulate the volume of the thoracic cavity, allowing for inhalation and exhalation.
How does the diaphran function?
The diaphragm is the main muscle used when breathing in. During the diaphragmic contraction, the diaphragm pushes downward and pulls on the pleural cavity which allows air to flow into the lungs.
Name the muscle that subdivides the ventral body cavity?
Answer: skeletal musculature( connective tissue)
