Abstract
The body of a normal adult consists for 65% of water. The greater part of this is intracellular fluid, the rest extracellular fluid. A separate compartment is the blood volume (BV), which comprises erythrocytes (red blood cells) and plasma. The proportion of the blood taken up by erythrocytes is called hematocrit.
Keywords
Normal Physiology Dialysis Treatment Extracellular Volume Water Intoxication Extracellular Osmolality
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