Tags: Anatomical Structure.

The various muscles of respiration aid in both inspiration and expiration which require changes in the pressure within the thoracic cavity. The respiratory muscles work to achieve this by changing the dimensions of the thoracic cavity.The principal muscles are the diaphragm the external intercostal and the interchondral part of the internal intercostal muscles.

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