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so your lungs can get oxygen and so you wont die
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How do you expand your lungs?
There are two ways to expand your lungs: 1. Muscles in your chest expand your Rib Cage and pull your lungs outward, expanding their volume. 2. Your Diaphram muscles pull downward and expand your lungs downward.
What are organs that expand to fill with air?
do you mean fills with air? if so then its the lungs
Is it true that lungs can expand and contract because they are muscular walls?
No. They expand because there's a diaphragm that sits below the lungs and make them expand
What do your lungs do when you breathe?
They expand.
What happens to lungs when you inhale?
what happens when you inhale is that air goes into your lungs and your lungs get bigger ...Actually, your diaphragm moves to expand the volume of your thoracic cavity, which pulls a partial vacuum on your lungs, causing them to expand FIRST...and THEN the partial vacuum created by your expanded lungs causes air to move into them. When you breath out, it causes the reverse to occur.
What happens to the lungs when the chest cavity becomes bigger?
The lungs expand.
When you breathe in do your lungs expand?
Yup
Does your chest expand because your lungs inflate or do your lungs inflate because your chest expands?
There are no muscles in the lungs that help inhale or exhale, this is the job of the diaphragm.
Function of the diaphragm?
to move when the lungs expand so the lungs dont get crushed
What happens to the ribs and diaphragm when you breathe in?
The diaphragm goes down, pulling air into the lungs. Your ribs expand, helping your lungs to expand also.
Explain what causes the lungs to inflate in light of the fact that the lungs themselves do not have any skeletal muscle?
The inter coastal muscles in between the ribs make the ribs expand. the pleural membrane is like a slippery skin that sticks to the ribs and when they expand the lungs expand aswell.
What happens to the ribs when you inhail?
the ribs expand slightly to give the lungs room to expand also.
