Sentences with 'diaphragm'
Example sentences and phrases with the word diaphragm and other words derived from it.
• « Hiccups occur as a result of a spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm, the muscle that facilitates breathing. »
• « The spasm causes the diaphragm to drop abruptly, causing air to enter the mouth and nose. To prevent this, the larynx contracts, causing hiccups. »
• « Let us compare a camera and the eye: the retina would correspond to the film and the iris to the diaphragm, which opens and closes according to the intensity of the light received. The lens is the crystalline lens, which flattens or lengthens depending on the distance to the viewed target. The image should be focused by the lens, inverted, right onto the retina, and from there the information is passed to the brain. »