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the fluid that circulates through the heart, arteries, capillaries, and veins, carrying nutriment and oxygen to the body cells.

It consists of plasma, it's liquid component, push 3 major solid components: erythrocytes (red blood cells or RBC's), leukocytes (white blood cells or WBC's), and platelets

Protein substances that increase the colloid onotic pressure

Another name for oncotic pressure. It is a form of osmotic pressure exerted by protein in blood plasma that normally tends to pull water into the circulatory system

Substances in a solution that diffuse through a semi-permeable membrane

Excessive loss of water from the body tissues. It is accompanied by an imbalance in the concentrations of essential electrolytes, particularly sodium, potassium and chloride

the abnormal accumulation of fluid in interstitial space

The clear, cell-free portion of the blood from which fibrinogen has also been separated during the clotting process, as typically carried out with a laboratory sample

the watery, straw-collered fluid component of lymph and blood in which the leukocytes, erythrocytes, and platelets are suspended

The pressure produced by a solution necessary to prevent the osmotic passage of solvent into it when the solution and solvent are separated by a semipermable membrane

Having the same concentration of a solute as another solution and hence exerting the same osmotic pressure as that solution, such as an isotonic saline solution that contains an amount of salt equal to that found in the intracellular and extracellular fluid

The fluid inside blood vessels

The fluid located within cell membranes throughout most of the body. it contains dissolved solutes that are essential to maintaining electrolyte balances and healthy metabolism

The extracellular fluid that fills in the spaces between most of the cells of the body. Note also; an interstice is defined as a small space within a tissue

A condition in which there is an inadequate amount of sodium, the major extracellular cation, in the blood stream caused either by inadequate excretion of water of by excessive water intake

A condition in which there is an inadequate amount of sodium, the major intracellular cation, in the bloodstream

An abnormally high sodium concentration in the blood; may be due to defective renal excretion but is more commonly caused by excessive dietary sodium or replacement therapy

An abnormally high potassium concentration in the blood; most often due to defective renal excretion but can also be due to excessive dietary potassium

The pressure exerted by a liquid

A difference in the concentration of a substance on two sides of a permeable barrier

Fluid in the body that is outside the blood vessels

That portion of the body fluid comprising the intestitial fluid and blood plasma