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Water content of avg adult body
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40% to 60% depends on body weight
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Water content of infant
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75%
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Water content of older adult
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40%-45%
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Total water content ______ through out life
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Declines
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Fluid Compartments
Known as cytosol within cells |
Intracellular Fluid compartment (ICF)
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Fluid Compartments
makeup approx 2/3 of water in body contained in cells = 25 L of body H2O |
Intracellular fluid compartment
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Fluid compartments
fluid outside cell |
Extracellular fluid compartment (ECF)
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Fluid compartments
Make up approx 1/3 of water in body = 15L |
Extracellular fluid compartment (ECF)
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Fluid compartments
2 major subcompartments of ECF |
Plasma - fluid portion of blood; makeup 3L of ECF = 20%
interstitial fluid - fluid in spaces between tissue cells; make up 12L of ECF = 80 % |
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Other ECF
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Lymph
cerebrospinal fluid eye humor synovial fluid serons fluid gastrointestinal secretion |
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Body fluids regers to
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Solvents
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Dissolved substances are called?
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Solutes
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Organic molecules such as glucose, lipids, chilesterol and urea
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Nonelectrolytes
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No electrical charge
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Nonelectrolytes
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Do not dissociate in solution
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Nonelectrolytes
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