Here are a few terms in regards to fluid, electrolyte, and acid base balance.
- Acid: hydrogen high ion containing substance with the pH below 7.35
- Acidosis: a condition that is characterized by the extracellular fluid having an access of hydrogen ions
- active transport: the movement of molecules or ions across the cellular membrane involving metabolic energy that is usually against a pressure gradient.
- agglutinin: in antibody causing specific antigens to clump.
- alkalosis: a condition in which the extra cellular fluid concentration lacks hydrogen ions, the pH exceeding 7.45.
- anions: an ion with the negative electric charge.
- antibody: immunoglobin that is produced by the body in response to a certain antigen.
- antigen: a foreign substance in the body which is capable of producing an immune response.
- autologous transfusion: a blood transfusion of a patient’s own blood.
- base: a substance that can accept hydrogen ions.(Same as alkali)
- buffer: a substance that prevents body fluid from becoming too acidic or alkaline.
- cation: a positively charged ion.
- colloid osmotic pressure: same as oncotic pressure, the pressure put forth by plasma proteins on permeable membranes.
- cross matching: testing in a surer aim the compatibility of two blood specimens.
- diffusion: silence moving freely through a solvents of higher concentration to lower concentration until equilibrium occurs.
- edema: extra fluid in extra cellular spaces.
- electrolytes: substances that are able to break down into science and developing an electric charge when dissolved in a solution.
- filtration: a passage of fluid from an area of higher pressure to lower pressure throughout per meal membrane and that only allows certain solutes to pass.
- hydrostatic pressure: force that of fluid gives off against the container.
- hypercalcemia: an excess of calcium in the extracellular fluid.
- hyperkalemia: an excess of potassium in the extracellular fluid
- hypermagnesemia: an excess of magnesium in the extracellular fluid
- hypernatremia: an excess of sodium in the extracellular fluid
- hyperphosphatemia: an organic phosphorus concentration, in the serum, that is above normal.
- Hypertonic: having greater concentration in the solution compared to.
- hypervolemia: excess of plasma
- hypercalcemia: having in insufficient amount of calcium in the extracellular fluid
- hypokalemia: having an insufficient amount of potassium in the extracellular fluid
- hypomagnesemia: having an insufficient amount of magnesium in the extracellular fluid
- hyponatremia: having an insufficient amount of sodium in the extracellular fluid
- hypophosphatemia: inorganic phosphorus serum concentration below normal
- hypovolemia: deficiency of blood plasma
- Ion: an animal molecule that carries an electric charge in a solution
- Isotonic: having just about the same concentration as a solution compared to
- Osmolarity: a solutions polling power or the solution’s concentration of particles
- Osmosis: Sullivan passed in through a semi-permeable membrane from an area of lesser concentration to greater concentration until equilibrium occurs.
- pH: hydrogen ion concentration and the resulting acidity of the substance
- solutes: a substance that is dissolved in a solution
- solvents: a liquid holding a substance in solution
- typing: determining the blood type.
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