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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.
Describe how the diaphragm and rib muscles work together to control inhaling and exhaling?
The diaphragm contracts and moves downward during inhalation, increasing the volume of the chest cavity and drawing air into the lungs. The rib muscles, such as the external intercostals, help expand the chest wall outward to create more space for the lungs to fill with air. During exhalation, the diaphragm relaxes and moves upward, while the rib muscles relax and help decrease the volume of the chest cavity, forcing air out of the lungs.
What makes the chest cavity larger when you inhale?
When you inhale, the diaphragm muscle contracts and moves downward, and the rib cage expands as the intercostal muscles between the ribs contract. This creates more space in the chest cavity, allowing the lungs to expand and fill with air.
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 does the rib muscles and diaphragm contract do to the chest cavity?
The space in your chest cavity increases.
Inhalation in humans is achieved by?
contraction of diaphragm and chest muscles
What is the large muscles at the bottom of the chest that begins breathing called?
Diaphragm
What muscles do children use to breathe?
Children primarily use their diaphragm and intercostal muscles to breathe. The diaphragm contracts and moves downward, expanding the chest cavity, while the intercostal muscles between the ribs help to further expand the chest for breathing in.
What is the diaphragm muscle and the chest muscles are used for?
Breathing. These muscles are used to change the pressure in the chest so air can flow in and out of the lungs (on inspiration and expiration).
The brain sends electrical messages to the chest muscles and the for breathing in and out to occur?
And the *diaphragm*
Rib muscles and diaphragm contract making the chest cavity?
Increases
Which body part responsible for making the chest cavity smaller when you exhale?
the diaphragm, ribs, chest muscles, and sternum.
