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The sheet of muscle at the bottom of the ribcage is the diaphragm.

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What is the dome-shaped sheet of muscle that forms the bottom of the chest cavity?The dome-shaped sheet of muscle that forms the bottom of the chest cavity is called Diaphragm.


What do you call the thick sheet of muscle that forms at the bottom of your chest cavity?

Diaphragm.


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The diaphragm is a sheet of internal skeletal muscle in mammals that extends across the bottom of the ribcage. It plays a crucial role in breathing as it contracts and flattens to increase the volume of the chest cavity during inhalation and relaxes to decrease the volume during exhalation.


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What muscle expand chest cavity upward during inspiration?

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