Body fluid

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Intracellular and extracellular fluid compartments. The extracellular fluid compartment is further subdivided into the interstitial fluid and the intravascular fluid compartments.

Body fluids, bodily fluids, or biofluids, sometimes body liquids, are liquids within the body of an organism.[1] In lean healthy adult men, the total body water is about 60% (60–67%) of the total body weight; it is usually slightly lower in women (52–55%).[2][3] The exact percentage of fluid relative to body weight is inversely proportional to the percentage of body fat. A lean 70 kg (150 lb) man, for example, has about 42 (42–47) liters of water in his body.

The total body of water is divided into fluid compartments,[1] between the intracellular fluid compartment (also called space, or volume) and the extracellular fluid (ECF) compartment (space, volume) in a two-to-one ratio: 28 (28–32) liters are inside cells and 14 (14–15) liters are outside cells.

The ECF compartment is divided into the

interstitial fluid volume – the fluid outside both the cells and the blood vessels – and the intravascular volume (also called the vascular volume and blood plasma
volume) – the fluid inside the blood vessels – in a three-to-one ratio: the interstitial fluid volume is about 12 liters; the vascular volume is about 4 liters.

The interstitial fluid compartment is divided into the

transcellular fluid compartment (the remaining 1/3, or about 4 liters).[4]

The vascular volume is divided into the

arterial volume; and the arterial volume has a conceptually useful but unmeasurable subcompartment called the effective arterial blood volume.[5]

Compartments by location

Health

Body fluid is the term most often used in medical and health contexts. Modern

safer sex practices try to avoid exchanges of body fluids. Body fluids can be analyzed in medical laboratory in order to find microbes, inflammation, cancers, etc.[citation needed
]

Clinical samples

Clinical samples are generally defined as non-infectious human or animal materials including

blood products.[7] In medical contexts, it is a specimen taken for diagnostic examination or evaluation, and for identification of disease or condition.[8]

Sampling

Methods of sampling of body fluids include:[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "body fluid". Taber's online – Taber's medical dictionary. Archived from the original on 2021-06-21. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  2. ^ "The water in you". Howard Perlman. December 2016.
  3. ^ Lote, Christopher J. Principles of Renal Physiology, 5th edition. Springer. p. 2.
  4. PMID 29551158
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  5. ISBN 9780123814623
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  6. ^ Liachovitzky, Carlos (2015). "Human Anatomy and Physiology Preparatory Course" (pdf). CUNY Bronx Community College. CUNY Academic Works. p. 69. Archived from the original on 2017-08-23. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  7. ^ Packaging Guidelines for Clinical Samples - Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  8. ^ specimen - The Free Dictionary. Retrieved 7 August 2014

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