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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.
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What are organs that expand to fill with air?
Lungs are organs that expand to fill with air during the process of breathing. They have the ability to expand and contract to draw in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide.
Is it true that lungs can expand and contract because they are muscular walls?
No. They expand because there's a diaphragm that sits below the lungs and make them expand
What do your lungs do when you breathe?
They expand.
When you breathe in do your lungs expand?
Yup
Does your chest expand because your lungs inflate or do your lungs inflate because your chest expands?
There are no muscles in the lungs that help inhale or exhale, this is the job of the diaphragm.
What happens to lungs when you inhale?
When you inhale, the diaphragm and intercostal muscles contract and the chest cavity expands. This creates a pressure difference that allows air to be drawn into the lungs. The lungs expand and fill with oxygen, which is then absorbed into the bloodstream for transport to the rest of the body.
Why do your lungs expand when inspiring?
so your lungs can get oxygen and so you wont die
Function of the diaphragm?
to move when the lungs expand so the lungs dont get crushed
Explain what causes the lungs to inflate in light of the fact that the lungs themselves do not have any skeletal muscle?
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.
What happens to the ribs when you inhail?
the ribs expand slightly to give the lungs room to expand also.
When the lungs expand does it fills with air from the atmosphere?
Yes
What is the medication that expand the opening of the passage into the lungs?
bronchodilator
