Not exact matches
When surgeons
opened his
chest, they discovered that an infection had destroyed his sternum, and his
chest cavity was filled with blood and pus.
Interlace your fingers and wriggle up onto your shoulders,
opening that
chest cavity.
Occasionally, a portion of the muscle organ of stomach and the LES will actually protrude through the hiatus (the
opening in the diaphragm where the esophagus passes through the
chest cavity).
In a heart -
opening backbend, for instance, you increase the space in your
chest cavity, giving the lungs, rib cage, and diaphragm more room to fill with air.
The pose
opens up the
chest cavity and strengthens the spinal cord.
As a result the upper part of the stomach protrudes through the weak
opening in diaphragm into the
chest cavity (thorax).
However, when the abdomen is
opened up for surgery, air enters the
chest cavity and the lungs can't expand at all unless assisted.