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What are some reasons that your diaphragm muscle would hurt when breathing in and out?
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What are some reasons that your diaphragm muscle would hurt when breathing in and out?
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What is the dome shaped muscle called that helps breathing?
That would be the thoracic diaphragm.
Can too much muscle relaxants stop the heart?
Definitely. Your heart is a muscle, and muscle relaxers do exactly what they sound like: relax your muscles.An overdose of muscle relaxers can also relax your diaphragm (the muscle beneath you lungs that contracts and expands, allowing you to breathe). Relaxation of the diaphragm would inhibit contraction and, therefore, breathing.
Which is the major muscle for breathing?
The Diaphragm.When the diaphragm contracts, it increases the size of the thoracic cavity (chest), which lowers the air pressure, causing outside air to flow in.The external intercoastals are also used in breathing. They are the muscles on your ribs, that pull on your rib cage and help to expand the chest cavity.
What is the muscle that causes you to breath?
That would be the diaphragm.
What is the Large muscle that helps mammals breathe?
The diaphragm is the primary muscle involved with breathing. When you want to take a breath in (inhale) you contract your diaphragm. This makes the thoracic cavity larger, decreasing the pressure in the thoracic cavity and generating a vacuum. Air is drawn into the lungs because of the creation of this intra-thoracic vacuum. When you relax your diaphragm the elasticity of your lungs will force air back out (exhalation).
Where in the body would you find the diaphragam?
The diaphragm is the muscle below the lungs, and above the stomach, responsible for breathing. The diaphragm works by pulling tighter, thus decreasing the pressure in the lungs, pulling air in through the trachea. To exhale, the diaphragm relaxes, and chest muscles contract, pushing the air back out.
Is the diaphragm the largest muscle in the body?
Honestly it depends by what you mean by largest. Longest would be the sartorius muscle. The widest would probably be the trapezius. The diaphragm isn't particularly thick or wide.
What muscle would interfere with breathing if damaged?
heart
What is the wall of muscle underneath your lungs called?
The diaphragm is a wall of muscle that separates the thorax and abdomen, which would place it under the lungs.
What would be the effect on breathing of a spinal cord injury at the level of the 6th cervical vertebra?
The diaphragm would still be innervated, but the intercostal muscles would not. The person would only be able to undertake quiet breathing
How does breathing occur?
you breathe in and out or you would die!!!! <><><> The movement of the diaphragm is what causes the air to go in and out of your lungs.
Are the ribs immovable or movable?
Ribs move with the diaphragm to assist in breathing. While they are fairly rigid, just look at how your chest expands and contracts while breathing. If they were immovable, there would be no movement.
