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When you inhale what does the diaphragm and intercostal muscles do?
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∙ 11y ago
when you breathe in the intercostal muscles and the diaphragm contract lifting the ribs up.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 15y agoThey contract. By doing this, they lift the ribcage upwards and outwards which increases the volume in the lungs, so the pressure decreases and air is drawn in.
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∙ 11y agoexternal intercostals
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∙ 11y agothey expand
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What muscles are activated during normal quiet inspiration?
The Phrenic Nerve-Diaphragm and the External Intercostal Nerve-External intercostal muscles
Name of muscles between ribs?
The intercostal muscles. Intercostal means "between ribs".
What are the muscles involved in changing the volume of the thorax during breathing?
There are several muscles that are responsible for breathing. They are the Diaphragm, the external intercostal muscle, and the internal intercostal muscle.
What muscle is involved in respiration?
the intercostal muscles and the diaphragm
What muscle expand chest cavity upward during inspiration?
The diaphragm (a sheet of muscle underneath the ribcage) and intercostal muscles (located between your ribs).
What muscles are used when exhaling?
During a period of relaxed and average respiration, the muscles associated with inspiration, or the process of inhaling, include the muscles of the diaphragm, the external intercostal muscles, and the interchondral region of the internal intercostal muscles.
What are the two skeletal muscles that contribute to lung function?
Diaphragm and intercostal muscles.
How does exercise increase the strength of diaphragm?
Intercostal muscles increase in strength due to being repeatedly used in exercise, so to strengthen them you will have to do endurance training. The stronger the intercostal muscles the more air you can inhale as they pull your rib cage out giving you a larger thoracic cavity.
What causes the diaphragm to contract?
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What results from the contraction of diaphragm and external intercostal muscles?
an exhalation
What 2 muscles work together during inhalation?
The diaphragm and the external intercostal muscles.
How are diaphragm and intercostal muscles stimulated?
The diaphragm is stimulated the same way all other muscles are - nerve impulses that originate in the brain (or sometimes the spinal cord). The intercostal muscles expand during inhalation and contract during exhalation in response to the movement of the lungs by the diaphragm.
