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Describe the appearance and characteristic of a diaphragm rats?

The characteristics of a rats diaphragm is that it contracts and changes in size when the rat breathes. The diaphragm of the rat is found between the abdominal cavity and thoracic area. It appearance is long and thin looking.


What is the function of the diaphragm in a rat?

The diaphragm is a dome-shaped muscle located below the lungs that plays a crucial role in breathing in rats. When the diaphragm contracts, it flattens out, creating a vacuum that pulls air into the lungs. When the diaphragm relaxes, it returns to its dome shape, forcing air out of the lungs.


What is the sheet of muscle located between the chest and abomen?

it is called the diaphram.


Can rats get hiccups?

Yes, rats can get the hiccups. Rats do not have a gag reflex, which prevents them from burping, vomiting etc. Hiccups, however, are the result of a muscle spasm in the diaphragm. Rat hiccups are silent. Your rat may sit still and appear to be twitching much in the same way that humans hiccup.


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.


What separates the thoracic from abdominal cavities?

diaphragm


When the diaphragm contracts the what?

When the diaphragm contracts in the body, then you exhale