Fluid Regulation

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What is the fluid inside cells called?

Intracellular fluid/cytosol

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What is the fluid outside cells called?

Extracellular fluid

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What is included in extracellular fluid?

Intravascular fluid (blood plasma)

Interstitial/Intercellular/Tissue fluid (fluid between cells)

Transcellular fluid (fluid in a specific body region)

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Osmosis

The passive movement of water across a semi-permeable membrane, from an area of low solute to high solute

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Osmotic pressure

The tendency of a solution to gain water.

The greater the difference in solute concentration between two solutions the greater the osmotic pressure

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Metabolic water

The water produced as a by product of chemical processes occurring inside cells