Why can we control coughs and sneezes, but not hiccups?
In: Biology
Many of the muscles involved in a cough or a sneeze – and those you can use to suppress them – are under voluntary control of your brain.
The muscle spasm that is a “hiccup” is not a muscle we have voluntary control over, and there isn’t much other muscular structure around it that we might use to control it.
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