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by scymitar72 on August 30th, 2005
Your diaphram muscle, which sits just below your lungs, goes into a spasm and prevents you from inhaling.
"According to one doctor as well as the ever-useful Straight Dope column, it's all about your diaphragm. This dome-shaped muscle sits below your lungs, and it helps your windbags inhale and exhale. When you get hit in the abdomen, this can cause a pressure difference that makes your diaphragm spasm for a few seconds. You can't catch your breath until the spasm stops. "
--http://ask.yahoo.com/20050630.html
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im liking the informative overview well done all this analyzation
by maun kee on August 31st, 2005
I thought that a spasm in your diaphragm caused hiccups , not the wind being knocked out of you.
by Grandma Roses - my avatar is my real dog on September 1st, 2005