Body fluids Flashcards
What percentage of the animals total body weight is water?
60-70%
What percentage is intracellular fluid (ICF)?
40-50%
What percentage is extracellular fluid?
20%
What percentage of the extracellular fluid is interstitial fluid?
15%
What percentage of the extracellular fluid is intravascular fluid?
5%
what percentage of the extracellular fluid is transcellular fluid?
1%
What is Diffusion?
The movement of substances from an area of high concentration to one of a low concentration. The substances are passing down a diffusion gradient
What is Osmosis?
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
What is Isotonic?
Fluid that has the same osmotic pressure as that of plasma (most fluid therapy involves the use of isotonic fluids)
What is Hypotonic?
The fluid has a lower osmotic pressure than that of plasma
What is hypertonic?
Fluid has a higher osmotic pressure than that of plasma
What is insensible or inevitable loss?
Fluid loss from the body such as respiration and sweating that cannot be regulated
What are cations?
Positively charged ions (electrolytes) such as sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium
What are anions?
negatively charged ions such as chloride, bicarbonate, sulphate and phosphate
What is intracellular fluid?
fluid within the calls
What is extracellular fluid?
fluid surrounding the cells
What is plasma?
Fluid in the blood
What is transcellular fluid?
the fluids that are not inside the cells, but are separated from plasma and interstitial fluid by cellular barriers
Give examples of transcellular fluids
Cerebrospinal fluid, synovial fluid and pleural fluid
What is a solution?
a liquid in which one or more substances have been dissolved
What is a solvent?
a liquid which dissolves or has power to dissolve