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Sherwood Ritchie
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∙ 9y agoWhen you inhale (breathe in), your diaphragm contracts (tightens) and moves downward.
When your diaphragm contracts, the space in your chest cavity increases, into which your lungs expand. The intercostal muscles between your ribs also help enlarge the chest cavity. They contract to pull your rib cage both upward and outward when you inhale.
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∙ 13y agoPhrenic Nerve
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∙ 14y agowhen you inhale the diaphragm contracts
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∙ 13y agobreathing
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What is the importance of diaphragm?
The importance of diaphragm is that it helps the functionality of the lungs. The diaphragm will contract and expand so as it regulate the air pressure in the lungs.
When the diaphragm contracts what shape is it?
less dome like mnz about flat...
Which process causes the diaphragm to move back up?
Exhalation
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.
What causes muscles to contract and relax?
Medicinal cannabis causes the muscular system in the human body to contract or relax. Try it :)
What muscle contract during inhalation and what muscles contract during exhalation?
The intercostal muscles, (muscles between the ribs), contract.
Does your diaphragm contract and move down when you inhale or exhale?
you inhale when your diaphragm contracts.
What muscle are contract during inspiration?
diaphragm
What is the importance of diaphragm?
The importance of diaphragm is that it helps the functionality of the lungs. The diaphragm will contract and expand so as it regulate the air pressure in the lungs.
What causes air to move into and out of a person lungs?
your diafram
When the diaphragm contracts it causes?
Inhalation
What causes overactive diaphragm?
Hiccups
What stimulates the diaphragm?
The diaphragm is stimulated to contract and relax by the phrenic nerve, which originates from the cervical spine. This nerve sends signals to the diaphragm to contract, allowing it to move downward and create negative pressure in the chest cavity for inhalation, and then to relax for exhalation.
What part makes your lungs inflate (expand) and deflate (contract)?
Using your muscles to voluntarily force the diaphragm lower into the abdomen will cause air to be drawn into the lungs. Lowering the lung pressure in this way is the only way to expand your own lungs. It is possible to expand them using compressed air, as with a ventilator or CPAP device (continuous positive airway pressure).
What causes Hiccupps?
something to do with your diaphragm muscle.
What is the muscle that causes you to breath?
That would be the diaphragm.
How air exhaled?
The muscles in your diaphragm contract to push the air out of your lungs.
