Hiccups

Thanks a lot for answering my question. Hiccups were always making me curious, I've asked my teachers for an answer to it and tried reading, but I didn't find anything... =)

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... noises are coming from? The part to blame is your diaphragm (say: die-uh-fram). This is a dome-shaped muscle at the bottom of your chest, and all hiccups start here. The diaphragm almost always works perfectly. When you inhale, it pulls down to help pull air into the lungs. When you exhale, it ...

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... but after joining this forum... I realized that what I know is nothing compared to what you people know ^^ Anyways.. my question is about Hiccups... how do they happen??? Thanks

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... good for our somach, especially before eating because there'll be a pressure difference which indirectly affect the diaphragm and causing "hiccups"..."lol" But, I don't think that the pH of cola is about 2...wow, it's about 100 times more acidic compared to vinegar.... Oh, ...

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If a person gets hiccups and wants to know what has set them off, there is a long list of medical or physiological disorders that are associated with hiccups and seem to cause them. The most common by far is distension or expansion ...

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