There are two ways to expand your lungs:
1. Muscles in your chest expand your Rib Cage and pull your lungs outward, expanding their volume.
2. Your Diaphram muscles pull downward and expand your lungs downward.
do you mean fills with air? if so then its the lungs
No. They expand because there's a diaphragm that sits below the lungs and make them expand
They expand.
Yup
There are no muscles in the lungs that help inhale or exhale, this is the job of the diaphragm.
what happens when you inhale is that air goes into your lungs and your lungs get bigger ...Actually, your diaphragm moves to expand the volume of your thoracic cavity, which pulls a partial vacuum on your lungs, causing them to expand FIRST...and THEN the partial vacuum created by your expanded lungs causes air to move into them. When you breath out, it causes the reverse to occur.
to move when the lungs expand so the lungs dont get crushed
so your lungs can get oxygen and so you wont die
The inter coastal muscles in between the ribs make the ribs expand. the pleural membrane is like a slippery skin that sticks to the ribs and when they expand the lungs expand aswell.
the ribs expand slightly to give the lungs room to expand also.
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Yes