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The diaphragm is a large thin parachute shaped muscle located below the ribcage. It's like a sheet that separates the upper chest cavity containing the heart and lungs from the lower abdominal cavity containing the intestines, liver, stomach, etc. Its primary job is for breathing. When it contracts it pulls down reducing the pressure in the chest cavity pulling air into the lungs. When it relaxes it rises expelling from the lungs. Contracting the diaphragm can also increase pressure in the abdominal cavity assisting in urination, deification and vomiting.
The diaphragm is also responsible for hiccups, which are caused by spasms in the muscle, often the result of eating too quickly.
Diaphragm helps pull air into your lungs and when you breath out it help to push air out of the lungs. Sometimes diaphragm become irritated. When this happens, it makes you suck air into your throat. When air rushing , it hits your voice box called Larynx, and it make hiccups.
Hiccups can happen if you eat too fast or too much, also feeling nervous or excited can cause hiccups.
Diaphragm is a primary muscles, it thin and not very large or small. Diaphragm is underneath you lungs and on top of your liver. It cover by your ribs. Your diaphragm help you and your lungs to breath.
The diaphragm is the part of your body that inflates your chest as you breathe.It is actually very important.
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When the diaphragm contracts the what?
When the diaphragm contracts in the body, then you exhale
What is a good sentence using the word diaphragm?
Every body has a diaphragm
Name the muscle that subdivides the ventral body cavity?
Answer: skeletal musculature( connective tissue)
This area is inferior to the diaphragm?
In terms of body regions, the abdomen is inferior to the diaphragm. In terms of body cavities, the abdominopelvic cavity is inferior to the diaphragm. In terms of anatomical regions of the body, the umbilical region is the inferior to the epigastric region (which the diaphragm is found in)
What is the most important skeletal muscle of the body Adductors of vocal cords or diaphragm?
diaphragm
A sentence using diaphragm?
When you breath, your diaphragm moves up and down , causing air to flow into and out of the lungs .
What is the possessive noun of your (body) diaphragm is located below your lungs?
Body’s
Do marsupials have a diaphragm?
Marsupials do have a thoracic diaphragm in their body. It separates the hearts and lungs from the abdominal cavity.
What are the unpaired muscles in the human body?
The diaphragm and the transverse arytenoid. Yes, the diaphragm IS an unpaired muscle.
What specific body cavity lies directly interior to the diaphragm?
You have two cavities related to diaphragm. But the shape of diaphragm is dome shaped and you can say that abdominal cavity is directly interior to diaphragm.
Is diaphragm found in ventral body cavity?
no
What body system is the diaphragm of a pig in?
siliva
