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What is that large band that controls the chest cavity?
The diaphragm is the large band of muscle that controls the chest cavity. It plays a crucial role in the process of breathing by contracting and relaxing to help expand and compress the lungs.
Is the diaphragm a bone?
No, the diaphragm is not a bone. It is a dome-shaped muscle that separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity and plays a crucial role in the breathing process by helping to expand and contract the lungs.
The muscle that the lungs rely on to take in and expel air is what?
The diaphragm is the main muscle responsible for breathing. When it contracts, it enlarges the chest cavity and creates a vacuum that allows the lungs to expand and take in air. When it relaxes, the chest cavity decreases in size, forcing air out of the lungs.
Why is the diaphragm important?
The diaphragm is an important muscle involved in the breathing process. When it contracts, it helps to expand the lungs, allowing air to be drawn in. When it relaxes, it helps to push air out of the lungs.
What does breathing have to do with the muscular system?
Breathing involves the diaphragm, a muscle essential for respiration. When you inhale, the diaphragm contracts and moves downward, creating space in the chest cavity for the lungs to expand. This action helps to draw air into the lungs, promoting oxygen exchange and supporting overall muscle function.
What composes the respiratory system?
The lungs, alveoli, diaphragm, nasal cavity, trachea, intercoastal muscle, bronchi, oesophagus.
What is dome shaped muscle below your lungs and helps you breathe?
The dome shaped muscle that works with the lungs is the diaphragm.
What is the thin sheet of muscle called that separates the lungs from the intestines?
the diaphragm muscle
Can you put diaphragm in a sentence?
The diaphragm is a muscle underneath the lungs.
What type of muscle is diaphragm?
The diaphragm ( the muscle underneath your lungs that help you breath) is a skeletal muscle, not smooth
What is that large band that controls the chest cavity?
The diaphragm is the large band of muscle that controls the chest cavity. It plays a crucial role in the process of breathing by contracting and relaxing to help expand and compress the lungs.
What are the 7 respiratory system?
diaphragm the nostrils bronchi lungs trachea alveolus
What muscle inflates and deflates the lungs?
i believe it's Diaphragm
What is the big muscle under your ribs that helps you to breathe?
The muscle beneath the lungs is known as the diaphragm. This muscle helps to create expanding room for the lungs when needed. The lungs wouldn’t be able to take in air if the diaphragm didn’t exist or had an issue.
Do lungs have musles?
yes because organs are made up of tissues and so are muscles and for the lungs to move they need the muscle. So yes your lungs do have muscles.
What muscles move the air in and out of the lungs?
I think you meant move air into the lungs. The muscle is the diaphragm.
What muscle helps move the lungs?
diaphragm
