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you inhale when your diaphragm contracts.

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How do you pull a muscle in your diaphragm?

Your diaphragm IS muscle. When we inhale, it is pushed down. When we exhale, it is pulled up.


What muscle compress and move downward when you inhale?

the diaphragm. It is right above the heart and lungs, and expands and contracts when you breathe in and out. You can almost feel it move down a little, when you release air.


What happens to the diaphragm when you inhale and when you exhale?

When the diaphragm contracts and moves lower, the chest cavity enlarges, reducing the pressure outside the lungs. To equalize the pressure, air enters the lungs. When the diaphragm relaxes and moves back up, the elasticity of the lungs and chest wall pushes air out of the lungs.


What layer of muscles move up and down when you breath?

The diaphragm is a muscle that moves or pushes up your lung when you exhale and down when you inhale in order to allow more space for oxygen to fill your lung. Also, your chest expands as you breath in and relax as you exhale.


What is the changes in size of thoracic cavity during the contraction and relaxation of diaphragm?

When the Diaphragm contracts, it is pulled down, and is pulled back up when it relaxes.Also, when you inhale, it contracts. When you exhale, it relaxes.


Does the diaphragm need to go down to breath in?

The diaphragm moves down and contracts, flattening itself, when you inhale.


What position is the diaphragm when relaxes?

In the human body, the diaphragm separates the thoracic and abdominal cavities. When a person sits in an erect position, the diaphragm moves in an up and down motion, sort iof like an accordion.


What does it mean when your belly goes up and down?

When your belly goes up and down, it often indicates the movement of the diaphragm during breathing. As you inhale, your diaphragm contracts and moves downward, causing your abdomen to expand. Conversely, when you exhale, the diaphragm relaxes and moves upward, leading to a decrease in abdominal size. This rhythmic motion is a normal part of the breathing process.


When you inhale what direction does the diaphragm move?

Upwards, toward the head.


How do lung intake oxygen?

Simple answer. All your life your lungs inhale and exhale oxygen. This is facilitated by the diaphragm, a muscle just below the lungs. When this muscle moves down a partial vacuum is created allowing the lungs to inflate filling the space created by the moving diaphragm, it then moves up again compressing the lungs and therefore expelling the air in them.


When the diaphragm moves up do you inhale?

No, as you inhale the diaphragm is contracting and pulling down, expanding the lungs. As you breathe out, the muscle relaxes and rises up again.


When you inhale what contracts and moves down the bronchioles nephrons diaphragm or kidneys?

When you inhale, your diaphragm contracts dropping down causing negative pressure in your thoracic cavity(lung area) so that air can circulate through the lungs.