Auxiliary breathing

Auxiliary breathing (also called auxiliary breathing) refers to breathing with the help of the so-called auxiliary respiratory muscles , especially when there is severe shortness of breath . In particular:

• Internal intercostal muscle
• Subcostal muscle
• Rectus abdominis muscle
• External obliquus abdominis muscle
• Internus abdominis oblique muscle

These are also known as expirators and they work when you breathe out ( exhalation ) and help remove air from your lungs .

Web links

• http://members.aon.at/alois.krenn/atmung.htm
• Auxiliary breathing in the Langenscheidt foreign dictionary

Individual evidence

1. ^ Auxiliary breathing , Pschyrembel Online