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Body fluids Flashcards

1
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What percentage of the animals total body weight is water?

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60-70%

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2
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What percentage is intracellular fluid (ICF)?

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40-50%

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3
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What percentage is extracellular fluid?

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20%

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4
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What percentage of the extracellular fluid is interstitial fluid?

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15%

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5
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What percentage of the extracellular fluid is intravascular fluid?

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5%

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6
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what percentage of the extracellular fluid is transcellular fluid?

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1%

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7
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What is Diffusion?

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The movement of substances from an area of high concentration to one of a low concentration. The substances are passing down a diffusion gradient

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8
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What is Osmosis?

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A process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one

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9
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What is Isotonic?

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Fluid that has the same osmotic pressure as that of plasma (most fluid therapy involves the use of isotonic fluids)

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10
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What is Hypotonic?

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The fluid has a lower osmotic pressure than that of plasma

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What is hypertonic?

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Fluid has a higher osmotic pressure than that of plasma

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12
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What is insensible or inevitable loss?

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Fluid loss from the body such as respiration and sweating that cannot be regulated

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13
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What are cations?

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Positively charged ions (electrolytes) such as sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium

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14
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What are anions?

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negatively charged ions such as chloride, bicarbonate, sulphate and phosphate

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15
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What is intracellular fluid?

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fluid within the calls

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16
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What is extracellular fluid?

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fluid surrounding the cells

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17
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What is plasma?

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Fluid in the blood

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18
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What is transcellular fluid?

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the fluids that are not inside the cells, but are separated from plasma and interstitial fluid by cellular barriers

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19
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Give examples of transcellular fluids

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Cerebrospinal fluid, synovial fluid and pleural fluid

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20
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What is a solution?

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a liquid in which one or more substances have been dissolved

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21
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What is a solvent?

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a liquid which dissolves or has power to dissolve

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22
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Give examples of bodily fluids

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Amniotic fluid
Aqueous humour and vitreous humour 
Bile
blood serum
cerebrospinal fluid
cerumen
chyle
23
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What is the calculation for fluid loss through respiration and sweating?

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20ml/kg/day

24
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What is the calculation for fluid loss through faeces?

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10-20ml/kg/day

25
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What is the calculation for fluid loss through urine?

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20ml/kg/day

26
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What is the estimated total fluid loss from the body?

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50-60ml/kg/day

27
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is the water content of neonates higher or lower than in adult animals?

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Higher because the solid elements of the body are underdeveloped

28
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By what other name might interstitial fluid be known?

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tissue fluid

29
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List some functions of the body water

A

transport medium
temperature regulation
lubrication

30
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What is osmotic pressure?

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The pressure by which water is drawn through a semi-permeable membrane; proportionate to the number of particles in the solution

31
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How is water taken into the body?

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drinking
food
metabolism

32
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What is meant by sensible water loss?

A

losses controlled by physiologic functions; urination, lactation and gastrointestinal losses

33
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What is an electrolyte ?

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any substance that will split up into ions when dissolving in water. i.e any compound that can conduct and electric current when in solution

34
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What is an ion?

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an atom or group of atoms having an electrical charge by virtue of having gained or lost one or more electrons

35
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What is the chemical sign for sodium

36
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What is the main cation of the extracellular fluid?

37
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What is the main anion of the extracellular fluid?

38
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what is the chemical sign for chloride?

39
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What is the main cation in the intracellular fluid?

40
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What is the main anion in the intracellular fluid?

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Bicarbonate

41
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What is the chemical sign for potassium?

42
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What is the chemical sign for bicarbonate?

43
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What is plasma?

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The fluid part of the blood which the corpuscles are suspended

44
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What is serum?

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the clear, fluid residue of blood from which corpuscles and fibrin have been removed

45
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What is the daily water requirement for an adult dog?

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40-60ml/kg/day plus other sensible losses

46
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what is the daily water requirement for an adult cat?

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60ml/kg/day

47
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What is the daily water requirement for a kitten?

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up to 150ml/kg/day

48
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What is active transport?

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The movement of electrolytes against an osmotic gradient.

49
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what is the symbol for chlorine?

50
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What is the chemical sign for potassium?

51
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What is the chemical sign for calcium?

52
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what is the chemical sign for Phosphorus?

53
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What is the chemical sign for Magnesium?

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