Water
Includes interstitial, intravascular, lymph, and transcellular fluids.
What is Extracellular fluid
Means that the illness has a rapid onset, severe symptoms, and a short course.
What is Acute
the force exerted against the walls of the arteries by the pumping action of the heart
The functioning unit of the kidney
What is nephron
Compounds that structurally resemble cholesterol but are not absorbed in the human body
What is Plant sterols
Assists in the returning the fluid part of the heart
what is the Lymph
When an illness has a long duration
What is Chronic
The pressure when the heart beats
What is systolic pressure
The second part of the nephron
What is gluteal-femoral obesity
The liquid part of the blood
What is Plasma
Feeding of an appropriate formula or liquid via tube to a client's GI tract
Enteral Nutrition
Occurs in response to another event or disease in the body.
The amount of fluid filtered each minute by all the glomeruli of both kidneys and is one index of kidney function.
What is Glomerular filtration rate
Result of lipoproteins and lipids in the bloodstream
What is hyperlipoproteinemias
Caused by excessive water intake
A complete formula used when the GI tract is functional and the client needs all the essential nutrients in a specified volume.
Severe pain and a sense of constriction about the heart
What is angina pectoris
The active form of vitamin D
What is calcitriol
The interaction between atherosclerosis and hypertension
What is positive feedback cycle
The accumulation of excessive amounts of fluid between the cells
What is Edema
A surgical opening in the stomach through which a feeding tube is passed.
What is gastrostomy
When the heart cannot keep up with the demands on it
heart failure
The result of a variety of diseases that damage the glomeruli capillary walls
What is nephrotic syndrome
When the coronary arteries that supply the heart muscle with blood become blocked
What is coronary heart disease