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These form a cage that protects the heart and lungs?
The ribs.
What bone protecs you heat and your lungs?
Ther is not one single bone that protects both organs. Your sternum protects your heart. Your ribs form a rib cage which protects your lungs.
What protects your brain and your heart and lungs?
The breastbone (sternum) and the ribs are connected by cartilage to form the "thoracic cage" that covers the heart and lungs. It is not unusual for ribs to be fractured when using exterior compression on the heart, as is done in CPR.
Does the skull form a cage around the lungs and the heart?
The skull provides protection for the brain. The ribs form a cage to protect the heart and lungs.
How does bones protect your body?
they help you stand eitherwise you would be jelly They protect oragans. the ribs protect the heart and lungs, and the pelvis or hip bone protects the bladder lymph nodes and lower colon.
What is the function of the rib cage?
The rib cage has two functions. It protects the organs in the torso, particularly the heart and lungs, and also helps you to breathe because it expands and contracts, thereby inflating and deflating the lungs.To protect organs of the thoracic cavity; To form part of the thoracic cage(2009). In E. P. Solomon, Introduction to Human Anatomy and Physiology. St. Louis, Missouri: Saunders Elsevier.
Which bones form a cage?
rib bones are the bones which are known as rib cage .These bones are very thin and flexible thus allowing the lungs to expand and contract for the respiration . they also serve to protect heart and lungs
Why are the ribs called the ribcage?
ribs are called ribcage because our ribs form like a cage to protect our heart, lungs and other internal parts of the body.
What bones help to protect our heart?
Ribs. They form a cage with the heart and other organs inside the cage.
Function of sternum?
I guess one could think of the sternum as the "backbone" that holds the ribs together, keeps them in place. The sternum and ribs are a cage like system that protects your heart and lungs from injury. Your ribs are also contected to your spine. Imagine not having any rib cage at all!
What system does the rib protect in the body?
The respiratory system. The ribs form a cage around the lungs.
What blood vessel carries blood form the lungs to the heart?
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