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What specific body cavity lies directly interior to the diaphragm?
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∙ 10y ago
You have two cavities related to diaphragm. But the shape of diaphragm is dome shaped and you can say that abdominal cavity is directly interior to diaphragm.
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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.
When the diaphragm contracts the chest cavity is?
Depression results when the muscle fibers of the diaphragm contracts.
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What is the dome shaped muscel below the chest cavity?
The diaphragm.
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Inferior mainly, then lateral and interior to some structures.
What muscular structure separates the thoracic and abdominopelvic cavity?
The diaphragm separates the abdominal from the thoracic cavity.
What cavity is the diaphragm inferior to?
Abdominal cavity is inferior to the diaphragm.
What muscle is separating the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity?
The thoracic cavity is separated from the abdominal cavity by the diaphragm. This is a broad flat muscle. (muscular) diaphragmThe diaphragm is a muscle that separate the thoracic from the abdominal cavity. The pelvis is the lowest part of the abdominal cavity and it has no physical separation from it Diaphragm
What major cavity is superior to the diaphragm?
In physiology superior means above. The cavity superior to the diaphragm is the thoracic cavity
What separates the abdomen and the chest cavity?
The diaphragm separates the chest from the abdomen and pelvis
What body cavities are separated by the muscular diaphragm?
The diaphragm is situated between the chest cavity and the abdominal cavity.
What separates the abdominopelvic cavity from the thoracic cavity?
The diaphragm.
Name the muscle that subdivides the ventral body cavity?
Answer: skeletal musculature( connective tissue)
What is the dome-shaped muscle that aids in breathing?
The muscle you are referring to is the diaphragm. It also separates the thoracic cavity from the abdominopelvic cavity.
Is the diaphragm dorsal to the stomach?
Diaphragm is a sheet of internal skeletal muscle that extends across the bottom of the rib cage. The diaphragm separates the thoracic cavity (heart, lungs & ribs) from the abdominal cavity and performs an important function in respiration: as the diaphragm contracts, the volume of the thoracic cavity increases and air is drawn into the lungs.
Divides the thoracic cavity from the abdominopelvic cavity?
The diaphragm divides the thoracic cavity from the abdominopelvic cavity.
