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The diaphragm is the primary muscle involved with breathing. When you want to take a breath in (inhale) you contract your diaphragm. This makes the thoracic cavity larger, decreasing the pressure in the thoracic cavity and generating a vacuum. Air is drawn into the lungs because of the creation of this intra-thoracic vacuum. When you relax your diaphragm the elasticity of your lungs will force air back out (exhalation).
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What is the large muscle on the floor of a chest cavity that helps you breathe?
diaphragm
What is the strong muscle that helps the lungs to breathe?
The diaphram
What is the name of the big muscle under the lungs that helps you breathe?
diaphragm
How do fish breathe underwater?
Fish have gills, that's what helps them breath underwater.
What is the thick sheet of muscle that assists us when we breath?
The thick sheet of muscle that helps us breathe is called the diaphragm.
What is dome shaped muscle below your lungs and helps you breathe?
The dome shaped muscle that works with the lungs is the diaphragm.
How do bears breathe?
The same way as most other animal life, at least other mammals. The inhale through their nose and mouth into their lungs and exhale by the same route in reverse. Long snout helps warm the inhaled air, and along with a large, Roman nose, they have asense of smell. Polar bears do not breath under water; they just hold their breath.
What is the cartilage that attaches the ribs called?
the name of the muscle that is attached to your ribs is called a Diaphragm,it helps your lungs to breathe.
What is the big muscle under your ribs that helps you to breathe?
The muscle beneath the lungs is known as the diaphragm. This muscle helps to create expanding room for the lungs when needed. The lungs wouldn’t be able to take in air if the diaphragm didn’t exist or had an issue.
When a person dies is their last breath an inhalation or an exhalation?
exhalation because the diaphragm (muscle that helps you breathe) wont function nor your lungs, therefore you can't breathe when you are dead
What muscles help you breathe?
The main muscle that helps us to breathe is the diaphragm. When it contracts it creates a lower pressure area inside the lungs than is in the outside air, and this basically sucks air into the lungs. The lungs exhale through their own natural recoil.
Large triangular muscle helps you raise your hand above your head?
This is, if on the shoulder, probably the deltoid.
