Diaphragm
noun
A muscle that helps with breathing located below the chest area. It contracts and relaxes when you breathe.
When he laughed a lot, he could feel his diaphragm moving.
Often appears as...
- diaphragm muscle
- diaphragm contracted
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Formal
Technical
noun
A device in cameras and microscopes that controls the amount of light that can pass through.
Adjust the diaphragm to let in more light for a brighter photo.
Often appears as...
- diaphragm setting
- adjust diaphragm
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Technical
noun
A contraceptive device made of rubber that is fitted inside a woman's body to stop sperm from meeting an egg.
She uses a diaphragm for birth control.
Often appears as...
- birth control diaphragm
- use diaphragm
noun
A muscle that helps with breathing located below the chest area. It contracts and relaxes when you breathe.
When he laughed a lot, he could feel his diaphragm moving.
Often appears as...
- diaphragm muscle
- diaphragm contracted
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
noun
A device in cameras and microscopes that controls the amount of light that can pass through.
Adjust the diaphragm to let in more light for a brighter photo.
Often appears as...
- diaphragm setting
- adjust diaphragm
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A contraceptive device made of rubber that is fitted inside a woman's body to stop sperm from meeting an egg.
She uses a diaphragm for birth control.
Often appears as...
- birth control diaphragm
- use diaphragm
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Breathing Muscle
The diaphragm is essential for breathing; it moves rhythmically with each breath.
She took a deep breath, and her diaphragm expanded.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotion Indicator
The movement of the diaphragm can indicate laughter or heavy breathing due to emotions.
His diaphragm jerked with suppressed giggles.
Pro Tip 3/3Voice Support
Singers often speak of the diaphragm as a support for a strong and controlled voice.
To hit the high notes, she engaged her diaphragm more firmly.
Pro Tip 1/3Breathing Muscle
The diaphragm is essential for breathing; it moves rhythmically with each breath.
She took a deep breath, and her diaphragm expanded.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotion Indicator
The movement of the diaphragm can indicate laughter or heavy breathing due to emotions.
His diaphragm jerked with suppressed giggles.
Pro Tip 3/3Voice Support
Singers often speak of the diaphragm as a support for a strong and controlled voice.
To hit the high notes, she engaged her diaphragm more firmly.
Pro Tip 1/3Breathing Muscle
The diaphragm is essential for breathing; it moves rhythmically with each breath.
She took a deep breath, and her diaphragm expanded.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotion Indicator
The movement of the diaphragm can indicate laughter or heavy breathing due to emotions.
His diaphragm jerked with suppressed giggles.
Pro Tip 3/3Voice Support
Singers often speak of the diaphragm as a support for a strong and controlled voice.
To hit the high notes, she engaged her diaphragm more firmly.
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Safari Live - Day 42 PIPE...
drink hot chocolate or something like that and you feel warm inside that's what's basically happening to the cheetah while they're digesting their meat and that's why they're panting because it's to help to cool themselves down it's also all of that food in their belly is pressing up against their diaphragm as well so it's it's making
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Why you don’t like the...
So when you look at the mask, what you see is a projection of a character. Let's call that your outward voice. This is also the most classic way to think about the voice, it's a way of projecting yourself in the world. The mechanism for this projection is well understood. Your lungs contract your diaphragm
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Safari Live - Day 284 PIPE...
protein inside his belly and when his belly's full leopards and lions have the ability to gorge themselves and when the belly gets full what it does is it pushes the diaphragm up and the diaphragm then limits the amounts of space that the lungs have to work so he can't really take deep breaths it's all
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The surprising effects...
causing a dizzying drop in blood pressure after standing for too long. Some of these changes start to reverse even before birth. Shortly before delivery, the fetus drops down, decreasing the pressure on the diaphragm and allowing the pregnant woman to take deeper breaths.
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Why do we hiccup? - John...
The ancient hiccup reflex may have been adapted by mammals to help remove air from the stomach as a sort of glorified burp. The sudden expansion of the diaphragm would raise air from the stomach, while a closure of the glottis would prevent milk from entering the lungs.
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Safari Live - Day 129 PIPE...
Vinny wants to know if they book the breathe quickly to help digesting or is it to cool down well there's another lot of cooling down needed but they do a lot of the cooling down through their feet but that's because the diaphragm is
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Why Do Cats Purr? PIPE Nora...
they're really not under frequency analysis they're almost identical what's interesting about the cats purr is that it's not just generated by the larynx it's generated by the diaphragm right here that muscle that helps you breathe
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Safari Live - Day 226 PIPE...
full full of Impala so often when they gorge in gorge themselves with whatever they may have eaten it puts a lot of strain on their diaphragm and it basically is folding about so much that he can't take these these long deep
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Lifelike simulations...
We save her life, and get her safely to the operating room. Here's the these disorders -- what is known is congenital diaphragmatic hernia -- this hole in the diaphragm that has allowed these intestines to sneak up --
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Deadly Snake Bite! PIPE...
of his most critical organs his diaphragm which will stop his breathing his body is beginning its final breakdown he's fighting for his life his only hope is to make it to a
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 42 PIPE...
drink hot chocolate or something like that and you feel warm inside that's what's basically happening to the cheetah while they're digesting their meat and that's why they're panting because it's to help to cool themselves down it's also all of that food in their belly is pressing up against their diaphragm as well so it's it's making
Video examples
Why you don’t like the...
So when you look at the mask, what you see is a projection of a character. Let's call that your outward voice. This is also the most classic way to think about the voice, it's a way of projecting yourself in the world. The mechanism for this projection is well understood. Your lungs contract your diaphragm
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 284 PIPE...
protein inside his belly and when his belly's full leopards and lions have the ability to gorge themselves and when the belly gets full what it does is it pushes the diaphragm up and the diaphragm then limits the amounts of space that the lungs have to work so he can't really take deep breaths it's all
Video examples
The surprising effects...
causing a dizzying drop in blood pressure after standing for too long. Some of these changes start to reverse even before birth. Shortly before delivery, the fetus drops down, decreasing the pressure on the diaphragm and allowing the pregnant woman to take deeper breaths.
Video examples
Why do we hiccup? - John...
The ancient hiccup reflex may have been adapted by mammals to help remove air from the stomach as a sort of glorified burp. The sudden expansion of the diaphragm would raise air from the stomach, while a closure of the glottis would prevent milk from entering the lungs.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 129 PIPE...
Vinny wants to know if they book the breathe quickly to help digesting or is it to cool down well there's another lot of cooling down needed but they do a lot of the cooling down through their feet but that's because the diaphragm is
Video examples
Why Do Cats Purr? PIPE Nora...
they're really not under frequency analysis they're almost identical what's interesting about the cats purr is that it's not just generated by the larynx it's generated by the diaphragm right here that muscle that helps you breathe
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 226 PIPE...
full full of Impala so often when they gorge in gorge themselves with whatever they may have eaten it puts a lot of strain on their diaphragm and it basically is folding about so much that he can't take these these long deep
Video examples
Lifelike simulations...
We save her life, and get her safely to the operating room. Here's the these disorders -- what is known is congenital diaphragmatic hernia -- this hole in the diaphragm that has allowed these intestines to sneak up --
Video examples
Deadly Snake Bite! PIPE...
of his most critical organs his diaphragm which will stop his breathing his body is beginning its final breakdown he's fighting for his life his only hope is to make it to a
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Quote examples
Giada De Laurentiis
American Chef
Yoga has trimmed my body in a way that the gym never could. I used to be a gym rat, but I switched to yoga and am now almost 10 pounds lighter. One important thing I've gotten from yoga is breathing. When I'm cooking, the top part of my body collapses down. It cuts off my diaphragm.
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Cheryl James
American Musician
Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm.
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Jeffrey Osborne
American Musician
To play the trumpet, you have to use that diaphragm, and it's the same if you want to sing correctly. You really need to push it out from there. And I think that's what has kept me going as a singer.
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Wendell Pierce
American Actor
At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just helps with your speaking voice also, when you connect your diaphragm and your breath.
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Ed Kowalczyk
American Musician
When I was a kid, my aunt coached me a little bit for choir, and what she taught me actually stuck with me. She basically taught me to sing from my diaphragm and not from my throat.
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Neil Sedaka
American Musician
You have to learn how to sing from your diaphragm, and you don't become a great performer overnight. It takes a while. The more you do it, the better you are.
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Jacob Collier
English Musician
I can support my sound from the diaphragm, I can project and I can enunciate and things like that. But I was definitely singing from a lot younger than that.
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Eric Clapton
British Musician
To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
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Lesley Garrett
English Musician
I'm engaging my diaphragm as I'm speaking to you right now.
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Rod Stewart
English Musician
Everybody sings from their diaphragm.
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Giada De Laurentiis
American Chef
Yoga has trimmed my body in a way that the gym never could. I used to be a gym rat, but I switched to yoga and am now almost 10 pounds lighter. One important thing I've gotten from yoga is breathing. When I'm cooking, the top part of my body collapses down. It cuts off my diaphragm.
Quote examples
Cheryl James
American Musician
Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm.
Quote examples
Jeffrey Osborne
American Musician
To play the trumpet, you have to use that diaphragm, and it's the same if you want to sing correctly. You really need to push it out from there. And I think that's what has kept me going as a singer.
Quote examples
Wendell Pierce
American Actor
At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just helps with your speaking voice also, when you connect your diaphragm and your breath.
Quote examples
Ed Kowalczyk
American Musician
When I was a kid, my aunt coached me a little bit for choir, and what she taught me actually stuck with me. She basically taught me to sing from my diaphragm and not from my throat.
Quote examples
Neil Sedaka
American Musician
You have to learn how to sing from your diaphragm, and you don't become a great performer overnight. It takes a while. The more you do it, the better you are.
Quote examples
Jacob Collier
English Musician
I can support my sound from the diaphragm, I can project and I can enunciate and things like that. But I was definitely singing from a lot younger than that.
Quote examples
Eric Clapton
British Musician
To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
Quote examples
Lesley Garrett
English Musician
I'm engaging my diaphragm as I'm speaking to you right now.
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Rod Stewart
English Musician
Everybody sings from their diaphragm.
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