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What is the answer of it controls breathing by contracting and relaxing?

The diaphragm - a muscular sheet which lies below the lungs in the chest cavity.


What muscular organ is below the lungs It contracts and relaxes during respiration?

The diaphram!!


Is it true that lungs can expand and contract because they are muscular walls?

No. They expand because there's a diaphragm that sits below the lungs and make them expand


What system does the diaphragam belong to?

The respiratory system. It's a sheet of muscle below the lungs, that contracts to force air into the body.


What is the name of the muscular under the lungs that helps control the expansion and contraction of the lungs?

The diaphragm


What is the large muscular organ under the lungs?

The diaphragm


Organs in the muscular system?

lungs, skull, bones, brain,


Are the lungs muscular or elastic?

It is the natural elasticity of the lungs that allows us to exhale.


What are the answers to Review Sheet 15 Gross Anatomy of the Muscular System?

ambot


Is the diaphragm superior to the lungs?

Yes the liver lies below the diaphragm on the right side of the abdomen.


How is the muscular system and respitory system connected?

The muscles that cause the lungs to expand and contract and those in the windpipe are part of the muscular system. The circulatory system carries Oxygen from the lungs to the muscles, then carries carbon dioxide from the muscles to be expelled by the lungs. The blood vessels throughout the body have integrated muscle.


The ventral body cavity is divided by a flat muscular sheet called?

The diaphragm.