The Basics of Chemistry

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The first, the first heading is exchange of water between cellular and extra cellular fluids. And he starts with saying that the water can move through all the cell membranes. And as a consequence of that, all the body fluids are osmotic equilibrium, that if anything were to get any more concentrated, water would flow into that compartment and dilute it back to the same osmolality. So you have the same osmolality in the c s f, plasma, galb, latter secretions, intestines. No place is able to maintain an osmotic radient, except for what? What organ can man ontain an osmotic radium? Oat
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vast organ. Ever, i just want to say that, like, for me, when i, when i think about these things, and like, water moving down ospiality, greats. Doesn't it take you back a little bit like chemistry in college, like with allyour primat courses? Ok? This is the reason why we have these. Are part of your like, prime like requisites. And i think it's important too, like, just to keep this in mind, that, you know, we've been learning these concepts, or we know them to some degree, but then as we go through medical school, like the pre clinical curriculum and clinical curiculum, we kind of forget all these these basic foundations of chemistry, that we got an underground but i like how this ii felt, especially with this chapter, like it really brings us back there. So
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then rose starts to go through the basic, let's call it the physics, write, the physical chemistry of how osmolality works. And it's dependent on the brownie and motion of icles, and that this motion is slowed down when there are other solutes in the water. And so areas with lower solute contents have fluids, have particles moving at a faster rate, so that are more likely to leave that compartment and move into the cment with the solute which was kind of while thit, never had heard an explanation for why you get osmotic movement of water.

Chapter Seven: The Total Body Water and The Plasma Sodium Concentration

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