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What is the large muscle on the floor of a chest cavity that helps you breathe?
diaphragm
Describe the function of your diaphragm and explain how inhaling and exhaling occurs?
Breathing is done by your diaphragm. When you breathe in, your diaphragm tightens (contracts) and moves downward so your lungs can expand. When you breathe out (exhale) your diaphragm relaxes (expands) and moves up into your chest.
What happen if diaphragm in not there in the body?
A diaphragm can mean two different things at least in this case:' 1) a barrier-type contraceptive used by women 2) the big flat muscle separating the chest cavity from the abdominal(stomach) cavity. Diaphragm the muscle is what we use to breathe, w/o it we'd be unable to expand our chest and fill our lungs.
What muscle compress and move downward when you inhale?
the diaphragm. It is right above the heart and lungs, and expands and contracts when you breathe in and out. You can almost feel it move down a little, when you release air.
What causes the diaphragm to return to its dome shaped position?
When you breathe out, or exhale, your diaphragm relaxes and moves upward into the chest cavity. The intercostal muscles between the ribs also relax to reduce the space in the chest cavity.
How do you make you stomach inflate?
Breathe in deeply using your diaphragm not your chest / lungs. That's how we should be breathing anyway...
How does the diaphragm and rib muscles work together to control inhaling and exhaling?
When you breathe, the actions of your rib muscles and diaphragm expand or contract your chest. As a result, air flows in and out.
What muscle expand chest cavity upward during inspiration?
The diaphragm (a sheet of muscle underneath the ribcage) and intercostal muscles (located between your ribs).
Muscle separating the chest and abdomen?
the diaphragm is the muscle separating the chest and the abdomen
Describe how the diaphragm and rib muscles work together to control inhaling and exhaling?
When you breathe, the actions of your rib muscles and diaphragm expand or contract your chest. As a result, air flows in and out.
When you breathe in does the diaphragm do?
When you breathe in, your diaphragm contracts. This makes the diaphragm move lower and increases the area in your lungs.
What do you think the diaprhagm does?
First, it's diaphragm. Second, as we breathe in, the chest expands, the diaphragm flattens and the intercostal muscles lift the ribs upwards and outwards to allow the lungs to fill with air. As we breathe out, the intercostal muscles relax and the diaphragm becomes dome shaped. See related link for more details
