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RossFirst of all it the heart is protected with pericardium and then by rib cage.
Heart and lungs are covered within a bony cage called chest cavity or thoracic cavity . Thoracic cavity is formed when the bones from sternum joins with the vertebral bones laterally.
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What protects your brain and your heart and lungs?
The breastbone (sternum) and the ribs are connected by cartilage to form the "thoracic cage" that covers the heart and lungs. It is not unusual for ribs to be fractured when using exterior compression on the heart, as is done in CPR.
What forms a cage that protects the heart and lungs?
The rib cage, comprised of bones.
What structure protects the heart?
The immediate protector of the heart is the pericardium, which is the sac that surrounds the heart. The heart is also protected by muscle, bone, and skin.
How does the skeleton protect your heart and lungs?
The ribs are strong and makes your heart and lungs un hurtable
What is the protective covering that keeps the heart from rubbing against your lungs and chest wall?
The heart is held within the pericardium, a double-walled, fluid-filled sac. It protects the heart and provides lubrication to the heart tissue.
What is the bony structure that protects the heart and lungs?
Ribs!
What is the structure that protects your vital organs above the waist?
Your ribcage protects your heart and lungs and your skull protects your brain.
What is the rib cage protects?
well the ribs protect the lungs and i think the heart.
What part of the body protects your lungs?
the ribs make a cage that protects your heart and lungs.
What protects your lungs and heart?
Rib cage
What protects a frogs heart and lungs?
its ribcage
What bone protects the body?
Ribcage protects lungs, heart etc Skull protects brain.
What is the purpose of a rib cage?
To protect your heart and lungs.
Which two organs does the ribs protects?
heart and lungs
What form a cage the protects the heart and lungs?
The ribs.
What surrounds and protects the lungs and the heart?
viseral plura
Which part of the skeleton protects the heart and lungs?
no i cant answer
