Which muscle in the human body is the main breathing muscle?
The diaphragm is a large dome shaped muscle located just below the lungs. As the diaphragm contracts, it flattens out of its dome shape, and creates a pressure difference that allows air to enter the lungs.
To the naked eye, when the diaphragm contracts, the stomach and abdominal contents tends to protrude outwards to make room for air the enter the thoracic cavity. This breathing strategy is often taught and exaggerated to help people become more efficient at breathing.
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9 Comments
Shelley Welch Dunivan
I think most of the people that shows lungs did not think about the question. They just saw the lungs and there you go! Lungs are an organ, diaphragm is a set of muscles. The question asked muscle
Peter Thomas
Cheryl Love, if you look at the time stamp you’ll see that in fact manasphal has copied Shelley’s comment. Manasphal is well known for doing this.
Cheryl Love
Why do people here copy others’ comments word for word? See below, Shelley copied manasphal about 2 weeks after the comment by manasphal. Try something original.
Mary McAvinew Bowles
I can still hear my HS Band Director,"breathe from your diaphragm"
Howard Groopman
I'm not good at science, but I figured the lungs are not muscles and the diaphragm is.
Marcella Kosse
I said lung erroneously due to the fact that my diaphragm lifted away from the lungs, so obviously the lungs still work without the use of the diaphragm.
John McLardie
Clone alert!!
earlepg
Authors with only a first name and a performance rating of 0.0% usually don't have erroneous options that draw 30% of the respondents.
Jerry Edwards
I'd once heard that this was the diaphragm. So just to make certain I double chanced it.
No wonder a large percentage have chosen lungs.
Easy mistake to make.