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External intercostal muscles are the ones between the ribs that help elevate them during inspiration.
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∙ 14y agoI believe the answer is external intercostals.
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∙ 13y agoA:
Ha!!.. I remember this from EMT school!! - They're called "intercostal muscles" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercostal_muscle)
external intercostals
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∙ 12y agoThe External and Internal Intercostal muscles.
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∙ 12y agoyour stomach muscles. tighten your stomach and you'll feel your ribs come up :)
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∙ 14y agomusculous riptosus
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∙ 13y agoThe External Intercostals.
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∙ 12y agointercostal muscles
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What muscle helps with food digestion and breathing?
Previous answer: "involuntary muscles"This answer is not accurate. While breathing muscles do act involuntarily, they can also be activated voluntarily. The two primary muscles responsible for breathing are the diaphragm and the tranversus abdominus. The diaphragm is the primary muscle for inhalation, if you're breathing correctly. The transverse is the primary muscle for forced exhalation.Since both muscle, when contracting, move inward into the abdominal cavity, where your organs of digestion are, they move the internal organs, essentially creating an internal massage mechanism for the large and small intestines, which helps keep smooth motion going in the involuntary pyloric (intestinal) muscles.
When the diaphragm contracts what contract and lift the rib cage?
You have small bands of muscles between the ribs in your rib cage (called external intercostal muscles) that contract when you inhale and pull your ribs up. ?These are semi-active during regular breathing. ?When you are exercising and need to breathe deep and fast, other muscles also jump in and help your rib cage expand, including your serratus anterior, scalene muscles, and sternocleidomastaoid muscles.But you are right in saying that the diaphragm does not directly lift the rib cage. ?During normal relaxed breathing, the rib cage mostly just expands on its own (the diaphragm causes your lungs to increase in volume, so the ribs just passively lift up to allow the lungs to expand). ?Only during exercise do your muscles (called accessory muscles of respiration) really do anything to your rib cage.
Small inspiratory muscle between the ribs elevate the ribs?
External intercostal
Are there muscles in your toes?
Muscles and tendons, and small muscles in between the toes.
What is a metaphor for breathing?
The trees were breathing.
What happens to the rate of breathing during vigorous exercise and why?
The breathing rate increases therefore the depth of breathing increases. During a vigorous exercise we undergo anaerobic respiration in muscles when there is not enough oxygen reaching to the cells to convert glucose into water and carbon dioxide (the products of anaerobic respiration with the presence of oxygen). During anaerobic respiration, glucose is only partially broken down into lactic acids and a relatively small amount of energy. Accumulation of lactic acids in the muscles causes pain and discomfort and may lead to muscle fatigue which is when the muscles are not able to contract properly. The muscles must rest and recover. Accumulation of high levels of lactic acids in muscles is toxic and must be removed. During the rest period, lactic acid is removed by the circulatory system to the liver. In the liver, lactic acid is oxidized to produce energy. This energy is used to convert the remaining lactic acids into glucose and eventually glycogen to be stored in the liver. This only happens after the period of anaerobic exercise has ended. The amount of extra oxygen that the body takes in after an exercise to convert the lactic acids into glucose is called the oxygen debt. This explains why we continue to breathe heavily,deeply and quickly after exercising. Hope this helps! -AA
What is the wide tube of muscles connected to your small intestine?
These muscles are called the tunica muscularis.
Small muscle masses that function to regulate the atrioventricular valves?
These small muscles are called papillary muscles. There are five total papillary muscles in the heart, three in the right ventricle and two in the left.
Should you exercise large muscles first or small?
Big muscles first. Because if you do small ones first, by the time you start with the big ones you wont have enough energy. When you work your big muscles first, you use your small ones as well.
How many muscles in a human ear?
There are 3 muscles in the human ear. Interestingly cats, although small has 32 muscles in their ears.
What is the wide tube of muscles connected to your small intestines called?
These muscles are called the tunica muscularis.
What Muscle has a small number of long fascicles?
I believe it is parallel muscles (6 pack muscles)
