Sentence examples for our diaphragm from inspiring English sources

In the simplest terms, when we laugh at a joke about (say) an undertaker, what causes our diaphragm to pulsate and chest to heave, he said, is the release of the psychic energy that would otherwise have been used to repress our anxiety about death that the joke expresses.

We start taking shallow breaths through our upper chest rather than through our diaphragm.

If we breathe naturally, it comes from the motion of our diaphragm, not the chest.

When we exhale, our diaphragm muscle relaxes but our abdominal muscles are working in order to expel the stale air from our lungs.

When our body is off balance, the nerve that activates our diaphragm, the phrenic nerve, gets impinged, and so the diaphragm doesn't have enough room to work.

The first phase, which is called 'inspiration', begins when we breathe in: our diaphragm and some of the muscles between our ribs contract to increase the volume of our chest, which causes air to enter our lungs.

When our diaphragms convulse, our shoulders shake, and tears come to our eyes, we're no longer in any position to experience the finer feelings that have been annulled.

Under the guiding wisdom of director Stacey Shade-were, we learn to breathe and speak from our diaphragms, making funny sounds, silly faces, mirroring those of our fellow cast members.

By the end of the 90-second compilation we were giggling at our desks with no control over our own diaphragms—just like actually watching any Edgar Wright film.

In our study group, diaphragm thickness decreased more than it did in Goligher's cohort.

In our cohort, the diaphragm muscle atrophy was heterogeneously present, and could not be directly associated with the amount of time the patient was ventilated in a controlled or assisted mode of ventilation.