Body Fluids

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The Body's Water
Fluid Compartments
Measuring Volumes
Ionic Composition
Units of Measure
Calculating Osmolarity
The Anion Gap
Clinical Examples
Fluid Movements
Transport Mechanisms
Membrane Transport
Osmosis
ICF-ECF Exchange
Calculating Exchange
Examples
ISF-Plasma Exchange
Capillary Pressures
Study Questions
Answers

Welcome to the handout pages for the Body Fluids lectures of Medical Physiology 301.   These pages are interlinked with one another in the outline style given in the table of contents above. 

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Copyright 1999, Joe Patlak, Department of Physiology, University of Vermont.
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Last updated: November 01, 2000.