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What will happen if the diaphragm of a person gets ruptured in an accident?

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It depends on the extent of the damage. If one side is damage the person can survive as one side of a lung can work but if the whole diaphragm gets damaged, the person cannot breathe as diaphragm plays a major role in mechanism and due to lack of oxygen the person will die.

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