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When you breathe deeply, what muscle contracts to allow more room for your lungs to fill with air?

When you breathe deeply, what muscle contracts to allow more room for your lungs to fill with air?
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When you breathe deeply, what muscle

contracts to allow more room for your lungs
to fill with air?

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When you breathe deeply, the diaphragm contracts to allow more room for your lungs to fill with air.

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