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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.
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What is the sheet of muscle located between the chest and abomen?
it is called the diaphram.
What is the human diaphragm made out of?
The diaphragm is not made out of bone, but the diaphragm is a 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.
Muscle separating the chest and abdomen?
the diaphragm is the muscle separating the chest and the abdomen
What is diaphragm cancer?
what is diaphragm cancer
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.
When you breathe in does the diaphragm do?
When you breathe in, your diaphragm contracts. This makes the diaphragm move lower and increases the area in your lungs.
What separates the thoracic from abdominal cavities?
diaphragm
When the diaphragm contracts the what?
When the diaphragm contracts in the body, then you exhale
Which muscle is innervated by the phrenic nerve?
Diaphragm
What is the heart above?
it is located above the diaphragm
What major cavity is superior to the diaphragm?
The thoracic cavity is superior to the diaphragm. It is separated from the abdominal cavity by the diaphragm and contains the heart and lungs.
