Fluid Electrolytes and Acid Bases

Water occupies two main fluid compartments within the body.

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• false

The extracellular fluid compartment is divisible into two subcompartments: (1) plasma, the fluid portion of blood, and (2) interstitial fluid (IF), the fluid in the microscopic spaces between tissue cells.

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• false

Moves through semipermeable membrane to equalize concentration of solutes on each side of the membrane

• Osmosis

• Filtration

• Diffusion

• Water

Anything that changes the solute concentration in any compartment leads to net water flows.

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• false

An electrolyte is a substance that dissociates into ions in solution.

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• false

Which is the major extracellular ion?

• Sodium

• Potassium

• Magnesium

• Phosphate

Primary electrolyte involved in determining extracellular fluid volumes & controls fluid distribution.

• Sodium function

• Calcium function

• Phosphorus function

• Potassium function

• Magnesium function

The hormone aldosterone “has the least to say” about renal regulation of sodium ions.

• true

• false

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

_________ always follows Na+.

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-5

When CO2 combines with water, what acid does it produce?

• Ketoacids

• carbonic acid

• lactic acid

• fatty acid