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The blood
Blood
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When blood volume decreases due to sweating, from what source is water taken in by the blood? | The interstitial fluid (IF). |
| What happens in the tissue when capillary blood pressure is less than osmotic pressure? | Fluid enters the capillaries from interstitial spaces. |
| What effect does drinking seawater have on the body? | The net transfer of water from the inside of your cells to the outside will cause the cells to shrink considerably. Osmosis happens and dehydration |
| The two major types of control systems that operate to maintain the constancy of pH are | chemical and physiological. |
| Which of the following symbols/abbreviations is used to represent the negative logarithm of the number of hydrogen ions present in 1 liter of a solution? | pH |
| In clinical medicine, the term _____ is used to describe an arterial blood pH of less than 7.5. | acidosis |
| A common type of electrolyte imbalance in which potassium is lost from the body, resulting in a serum potassium level below 3.5 mEq/L, is | hypokalemia |
| The mechanism that tends to restore normal extracellular fluid volume when it decreases below normal is the | ADH mechanism osmoreceptor aldosterone mechanism. |
| According to Starling’s law of the capillaries, the control mechanism for water exchange between plasma and interstitial fluid consists of all of the following pressures except _____ pressure. | colloid diffusion |
| What two factors together determine urine volume? | glomerular filtration rate and rate of water reabsorption |
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