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mostly, the rib protects your heart and lungs and your skull protects the brain

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What part of the body does the ribs protect?

The ribs protect your lungs (along with the sternum, which protects the heart).


How many functions does the skeletal system have?

Provide shape to the body Provide muscle attachments Produce blood cells Protect vital organs Part of hearing (the ossicles)


Is protection a function of muscles?

A muscle may contract in an effort to protect a joint or internal organs. For example, if you contract your rectus abdominus muscle (your "abs"), it reduces the risk of impact injury to the organs inside.


What does a smooth muscle provide?

Smooth muscle is responsible for involuntary movement, just like skeletal muscle, only the movement is usually in the internal organs.


Which type of bones has a broad shape to cover and protect organs or to provide a surface for large areas of muscles?

flatmostly, the rib protects your heart and lungs and your skull protects the brainhope this helps :)


What type of muscle fiber is used to provide contractions around primarily hollow organs?

The type of muscle fiber used to provide contractions around primarily hollow organs is smooth muscle. Smooth muscle fibers are involuntary and non-striated, allowing for the rhythmic and sustained contractions necessary for functions such as digestion, blood vessel regulation, and bladder control. These contractions help move substances through the organs and maintain internal processes.


How do involuntary muscle help the human body?

To protect our body parts and also our private body part,sence organs


What human joints protect human organs?

None because we do not have joints around our heart, lungs, stomach, kidney or bladder. But the ribcage protects most of your vital organs along with layers and layers of muscle tendon or tissue. Resulting in having most of your vital organs not needing to have any more protection


Which muscle type is attached to your bones for movement and helps protect your inner organs?

Voluntary muscle provides movement and helps protect the inner organs.It would take a textbook to describe the origins, insertions and actions of all the muscles in your body.


What is the purpose of having ribs?

to protect interior organs


What is the job of the muscular systems?

The function of the muscular system is to, with the aid of bone, provide movement for the body. The muscle also helps protect some organs in the body, as well as give us our shape and structure. Also aids in posture. Well, You really did miss a very good point you forgot that The Muscular System also, Helps your body move and internal organs.


What does muscle tissue allow us to do?

Muscle tissues allow the human body to move its limbs and to move parts of the organs. Muscle tissues contract or expand in order to provide the required motion.