Our lungs are not in our stomach, so how is it possible to expand our stomach when breathing in?

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What exactly is happening when we expand our stomach when breathing and what specifically are we doing differently when we breathe through our chest?

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As we breathe in, the muscles in our thorax spread the lungs, making them grow in size while filling with air and pressing every nearby structure. The diaphragm that separates lungs from bowels happens to be one of the least rigid structures, compared to the ribs.

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