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What is the sheet of muscle located between the chest and abdomen?
diaphragm
Where is the diafram?
The diaphragm is located underneath the ribcage and separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity. It contracts and relaxes to help regulate breathing by controlling the volume of the chest cavity.
Location of lungs in context of diaphragm?
The lungs are located above the diaphragm, which is a dome-shaped muscle located at the bottom of the chest cavity. The diaphragm separates the chest cavity (where the lungs are located) from the abdominal cavity (where organs like the liver and stomach are situated). When the diaphragm contracts and moves downward, it creates more space for the lungs to expand during inhalation.
What separates the abdomen and the chest cavity?
The diaphragm separates the chest from the abdomen and pelvis
Where is the hiatus located in abdomen?
Hernia, hiatus: Protrusion of the stomach up into the opening normally occupied by the esophagus in the diaphragm, the great dome of muscle that separates the thoracic (chest) cavity from the abdomen.
What is a diaphragm of chest cavity?
The chest cavity is where your heart, lungs, and esophagus reside. It's essentially everything located behind the chest wall, but in front of the spine, above the diaphragm and below the throat.
What is it called when the diaphragm relaxes and the chest cavity becomes smaller?
During exhalation the diaphragm relaxes and the chest cavity gets smaller.
What does the rib muscles and diaphragm contract do to the chest cavity?
The space in your chest cavity increases.
What body cavities are separated by the muscular diaphragm?
The diaphragm is situated between the chest cavity and the abdominal cavity.
What is the movement of the chest cavity and the diaphragm?
inhale
What parts of the respiratory system 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.
Is a sheet of muscle located beneath the lungs that is used to expand and contrast the chest cavity of mammal?
diaphragm
