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  2. Extracellular fluid - Wikipedia

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    The volume of body fluid, blood glucose, oxygen, and carbon dioxide levels are also tightly homeostatically maintained. The volume of extracellular fluid in a young adult male of 70 kg (154 lbs) is 20% of body weight – about fourteen liters. Eleven liters are interstitial fluid and the remaining three liters are plasma. [7]

  3. Body fluid - Wikipedia

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    The extracellular fluid compartment is further subdivided into the interstitial fluid and the intravascular fluid compartments. Body fluids, bodily fluids, or biofluids, sometimes body liquids, are liquids within the body of an organism. [1] In lean healthy adult men, the total body water is about 60% (60–67%) of the total body weight; it is ...

  4. Body water - Wikipedia

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    Jackson's texts states 70% of body fluid is intracellular. [10] Extracellular fluid (1/3 of body water) is fluid contained in areas outside of cells. For a 40-litre body, about 15 litres is extracellular, [9] which amounts to 37.5%. Plasma (1/5 of extracellular fluid). Of this 15 litres of extracellular fluid, plasma volume averages 3 litres ...

  5. Fluid compartments - Wikipedia

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    The human body and even its individual body fluids may be conceptually divided into various fluid compartments, which, although not literally anatomic compartments, do represent a real division in terms of how portions of the body's water, solutes, and suspended elements are segregated. The two main fluid compartments are the intracellular and ...

  6. Interstitium - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] The fluid in this space is called interstitial fluid, comprises water and solutes, and drains into the lymph system. [2] The interstitial compartment is composed of connective and supporting tissues within the body – called the extracellular matrix – that are situated outside the blood and lymphatic vessels and the parenchyma of organs.

  7. Electrolyte imbalance - Wikipedia

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    The human body is approximately 60% water, a percentage which is also known as total body water. The total body water can be divided into two compartments called extracellular fluid (ECF) and intracellular fluid (ICF). The majority of the sodium in the body stays in the extracellular fluid compartment. [27]

  8. Dehydration - Wikipedia

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    Within the body, water is classified as intracellular fluid or extracellular fluid. Intracellular fluid refers to water that is contained within the cells. This consists of approximately 57% of the total body water weight. [19] Fluid inside the cells has high concentrations of potassium, magnesium, phosphate, and proteins. [21] Extracellular ...

  9. Blood plasma - Wikipedia

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    It makes up about 55% of the body's total blood volume. [1] It is the intravascular part of extracellular fluid (all body fluid outside cells). It is mostly water (up to 95% by volume), and contains important dissolved proteins (6–8%; e.g., serum albumins, globulins, and fibrinogen), [2] glucose, clotting factors, electrolytes (Na +, Ca 2+, Mg 2+