ANATOMY PHYSIOLOGY OF BODY FLUIDS
Type and composition of body fluid balance and movement.
Approximately 60% of adult body weight is generally composed of liquids (water and electrolytes). Factors affecting the amount of body fluid are age, sex, and fat content in the body.
In general, younger people have a percentage of body fluids is higher than with older people, and men have proportionately more body fluids than with women. People who are more obese have a smaller amount of fluid compared with people who are more lean, because fat cells contain less water.
In general, younger people have a percentage of body fluids is higher than with older people, and men have proportionately more body fluids than with women. People who are more obese have a smaller amount of fluid compared with people who are more lean, because fat cells contain less water.
Body fluids consist of two fluid compartments, namely: intra-cellular space (fluid within cells) and extra-cellular space (fluid outside the cell). Approximately two thirds of body fluids are in fluid intra-cell compartments, and mostly found in skeletal muscle mass.
Compartment extra fluid cells more clearly divided into space:
- Intra-vascular (fluid in the blood vessels), containing plasma.
- Interstitial space, containing fluid that surrounds the cell 8 in adults. For example lymph. ± and type
- Outdoor muscular, is the smallest part of the extra cellular fluid and containing approximately 1
liter of fluid each time.
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