Osmolality 1
The concentration of particles dissolved in a fluid.
What is Osmolality?
The effect on a person's osmolality levels when they're dehydrated.
What is the osmolality increasing?
A state of equilibrium in the physical and chemical internal conditions of the body, maintained by the body systems.
What is Homeostasis?
These chemical messengers help regulate processes like osmolality, blood pressure, and hydration by acting on target organs.
What are hormones?
This system of glands secretes hormones that help regulate various body functions, including osmolality and hydration.
What is the endocrine system?
The decrease in osmolality.
What is overhydration?
The measurement of Osmolality.
What is particles per kilogram of the liquid?
An action that the human body performs as a reaction to high external temperatures.
What is sweating?
What is antidiuretic hormone (ADH).
This gland, often referred to as the "master gland," regulates other endocrine glands and is controlled by the hypothalamus.
What is the pituitary gland?
One of the the two things that Osmolality tests indicate.
What is the kidney function or an unhealthy balance of fluids and electrolytes?
The organ in the human body that regulates osmolality by controlling water reabsorption.
What is the kidney?
A form of homeostasis where the body constantly maintains the osmolality of bodily fluids within a narrow range.
What is Fluid Homeostasis?
This hormone system, involving renin, helps regulate blood pressure and sodium levels, indirectly affecting osmolality.
What is the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS)?
The location of the pituitary glands in the human body.
What is the base of the brain?
The substances that Osmolality tests measure.
What are glucose, urea and electrolytes?
What is osmolarity?
The maintenance of a constant osmotic pressure inside the body by balancing the concentration of fluids and salts.
What is Osmoregulation?
The discoverer of hormones and the hormone they discovered.
Who is E.H. Starling or W.M. Bayliss and secretin?
The thyroid gland produces hormones that regulate metabolism, which indirectly affects this aspect of homeostasis.
What is body temperature?
An example of what Osmolality tests can be used for. (One Answer)
What is to check if you have swallowed a poison, to check for overdoses of drugs, or to help diagnose dehydration and overhydration?
An increase in this blood solute leads to a rise in plasma osmolality, often signaling dehydration.
What is sodium?
During the process of Osmoregulation, the excess of what three things are removed from the body to maintain the osmotic balance.
What is water, electrolytes and waste?
This pancreatic hormone works to lower blood glucose, helping to stabilise osmolality after a meal.
What is insulin?
The release of antidiuretic hormone (ADH) from the pituitary gland is primarily controlled by this part of the brain that detects changes in osmolality.
What is the hypothalamus?