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What major cavity is superior to the diaphragm?
The thoracic cavity is superior to the diaphragm. It is separated from the abdominal cavity by the diaphragm and contains the heart and lungs.
What structure on a microscope controls the amount of light that passes through the specimen?
The Diaphragm or diaphragm control lever regulates the amount of light passing through the slide specimen on the microscope stage.
What divides the aorta into a superior thoracic aorta and an inferior abdominal aorta?
The diaphragm divides the aorta into a superior thoracic aorta above the diaphragm and an inferior abdominal aorta below the diaphragm.
The heart is located above what?
The heart is located above the diaphragm and slightly left of the center of the chest, between the lungs.
Does the diaphragm lie inferior to the organs in the thoracic cavity?
No, the diaphragm lies superior to the organs in the thoracic cavity. It is a dome-shaped muscle that separates the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity and plays a key role in the process of respiration.
What is the importance of the characteristic of diaphragm in relation to its function during gas exchanges?
Normal inspiration and expiration is directly related to contraction and relaxation of the diaphragm. This is involuntary act, normally.
What is the sheet of muscle located between the chest and abomen?
it is called the diaphram.
What is the human diaphragm made out of?
The diaphragm is not made out of bone, but the diaphragm is a muscle.
What is the dome-shaped muscle that aids in breathing?
The muscle you are referring to is the diaphragm. It also separates the thoracic cavity from the abdominopelvic cavity.
Muscle separating the chest and abdomen?
the diaphragm is the muscle separating the chest and the abdomen
What is diaphragm cancer?
what is diaphragm cancer
How the diaphragm helps the lungs?
Your diaphragm contracts and expands when you breath. When the diaphragm contracts, air rushes into the lungs. When the diaphragm relaxes, air is exhaled.
When you breathe in does the diaphragm do?
When you breathe in, your diaphragm contracts. This makes the diaphragm move lower and increases the area in your lungs.
Which muscle is innervated by the phrenic nerve?
Diaphragm
What is the heart above?
it is located above the diaphragm
When the diaphragm contracts the what?
When the diaphragm contracts in the body, then you exhale
What separates the thoracic from abdominal cavities?
diaphragm
