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What separates the abdomen and the chest cavity?
The diaphragm separates the chest from the abdomen and pelvis
What is the sheet of muscle located between the chest and abdomen?
diaphragm
What happens to the size of the chest cavity as you inhale?
The movement of the diaphragm affects the size of the chest cavity by when you inhale the chest cavity enlarges, but when you exhale the chest cavity becomes smaller.
What is it called when the diaphragm relaxes and the chest cavity becomes smaller?
During exhalation the diaphragm relaxes and the chest cavity gets smaller.
What does the rib muscles and diaphragm contract do to the chest cavity?
The space in your chest cavity increases.
What is a diaphragm of chest cavity?
The chest cavity is where your heart, lungs, and esophagus reside. It's essentially everything located behind the chest wall, but in front of the spine, above the diaphragm and below the throat.
What body cavities are separated by the muscular diaphragm?
The diaphragm is situated between the chest cavity and the abdominal cavity.
What parts of the respiratory system when you inhale?
answer: diaphragm at the bottom of the chest cavity is a muscle called the diaphragm. when the diapragm contracts, the chest cavity becomes larger.
What part of the respiratory system contracts when you inhale?
answer: diaphragm at the bottom of the chest cavity is a muscle called the diaphragm. when the diapragm contracts, the chest cavity becomes larger.
What is the name of the muscular floor of chest cavity?
It is the thoracic diaphragm, or simply diaphragm.
Where is the diaphragm located in the chest cavity?
At the bottom of the lungs
What muscle contracts to expand the chest cavity?
The Diaphragm
