Introduction to body Function Flashcards

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What is Homeostasis?

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Maintenance of the temperature, volume, and composition
of body fluids

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What are features we share with other animals?

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-Interaction with the environment
-Detect and respond to environmental change
-Absorb nutrients and oxygen from the environment
-Excrete carbon dioxide and other wastes into the environment.

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What is the distribution center?

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Way of getting nutrients & O2 to all cells.
It also collects waste and transports it to organs of elimination.

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All processes are governed by?

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Chemical & Physical laws.

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What are features humans have?

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Body Temperature
Thermoregulators
Endothermy
Homeostasis.

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What is endothermy?

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The use of heat generated by metabolism.
(Generation of body heat).

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Conditions that are maintained in the internal body fluid?

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Temperature.
Volume.
Composition.

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Total body water:

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All internal body fluids.
It is 60% of the body weight.

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Extracellular fluid (ECF):

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1/3 of TBW. (20)
This is the fluid outside the cell.
It is composed of plasma and interstitial fluid.

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Intracelluar Fluid (ICF):

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The fluid inside the cell
2/3 of TBW (40)

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Plasma:

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ECF within the cardiovascular system.
25% of the ECF.
This contains proteins.

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Interstitial fluid:

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ECF outside the cardiovascular system.
This does not contain proteins.
75% of the ECF.

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What is the Hematocrit?

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The percentage by volume of red cells in your blood.

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What separates the Plasma and the Interstitial fluid?

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The capillary wall.

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Blood:

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55% plasma.
45% Blood cells.

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Osmolarity/ Osmotic concentration:

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Total solute concentration.

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Typical amounts of solutes are expressed in?

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m-osmoles.

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What is an osmole?

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the number of particles into which a
solute dissociates in solution.

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Osmolarity?

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Total solute concentration.

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Body fluid has an osmolarity of ?

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290 m-osm/L

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isosmotic:

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Two solution with the same osmolarity

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Hyperosmotic:

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Solution with the higher osmolarity.

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Hyposmotic:

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Solution with lower osmolarity.

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Plasma is made up of?

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90% plasma water.
10% plasma protein.

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What are osmotically active solutes?
These are polar molecules & Ions, that regulate water movement across membranes. Can be impermeable or semi-restricted.
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Osmotic pressure:
A force that drives water movement between two compartments when the compartment are separated by a semi-permeable membrane.
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What determines osmotic pressure?
Osmotically active solutes.
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High osmotic pressure means:
There is a low water concentration.
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Pull force:
The ability of a solution to draw in water.
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Impermeable solutes:
contributes most to osmotic pressure
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Semi-permeable to free:
Contributes least to osmotic pressure.
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If there is no osmosis, that means?
The two solution have the same osmotic pressure.
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Two solutions with the same osmolarity don't have?
The same osmotic pressure.
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Tonicity:
The ability of a solution to change cell volume. This ability is related to the solution’s osmotic pressure.
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Isotonic solution:
No change in cell volume.
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Hypertonic solution:
Cell volume decreases, the cell loses water
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Hypotonic solution:
Cell volume increases, and cell gain water from the solution.
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The human body is both?
Isotonic and Isosmotic. Isotonic ≠ Isosmotic.
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Water would move from ____ pressure to _____ pressure.
Low osmotic pressure to High osmotic pressure.
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Change in ECF & ICF in response to water deprivation.
ECF: Loses water, and becomes hyperosmotic. Osmotic pressure increases. ICF: Water goes ICF to ECF to balance the fluid, and ICF loses Volume. Osmolarity increases ( Hyperosmotic). In the end, the cell becomes Isotonic (Same osmotic pressure)