Constituent compartments comprising total body water (TBW) in humans
Their approximate percentages of TBW
What are intracellular and extracellular compartments
TBW = 60% of body weight
Intracellular: 60% of TBW
Extracellular: 40% of TBW
Ohm's law of hydrodynamics
What is Δ P = F * R
where F = flow, R =resistance, and ΔP = pressure difference.
Measure of the stiffness of the lungs
What is compliance?
C = Δ volume/Δ pressure
Any chemical substance that can donate a Hydrogen ion
Whats is an acid?
Company founded by John D. Rockefeller, Sr, broken up by Supreme Court decision in 1911
What is the Standard Oil Company?
Number of osmotically active particles per liter of a given solution
What is Osmolarity?
R = 1/r1 + 1/r2 + 1/r3 + .....
What is the calculation of resistance for vascular circuits in parallel?
The reciprocal of compliance
What is elastance?
E= 1/compliance (measure of elastic recoil)
Formula to calculate expected PCO2 in the face of an metabolic acidosis
What is Winter's Formula?
PCO2 = 1.5(HCO3) + 8 +/- 2
U.S President who graduated with the first class of Stanford University
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Three types pf integral membrane pathways for passive transport of ions and solutes
What are pores, channels and carriers?
Two major determinants of net flux of fluid across a capillary wall.
What are hydrostatic pressure(P) and oncotic pressure(π)?
Factors which can shift the O2-Hgb dissociation curve to the right.
What are acidosis, elevated temperature, and elevated levels of 2,3 DPG?
Causes of low anion gap
What are:
Midwest University founded with financial support by John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
What is the University of Chicago?
Active transporter affected by the cardiac glycosides: ouabain and digoxin
Ratio of sodium:potassium exchanged by ATPase
What is the Na-K-ATPase pump?
What is 3:2?
Components required for AV nodal re-entry tachycardia
What are a slow and fast pathway, unidirectional block in fast pathway, retrograde conduction via the limb with unidirectional block, and recovery of refractory period with integrate conduction down slow pathway
3 types of airflow occurring in pulmonary airways
What are laminar, transitional, and turbulent airflow?
Causes of metabolic alkalosis include all the following except.
a) Mineralocorticoid deficiency
b) Hypokalemia
c) Thiazide diuretic therapy
d) Recurrent vomiting.
What is mineralocorticoid deficiency?
Named for a Greek king, a type of victory won at too great a cost to have been worthwhile for the victor.
What is a pyrrhic victory?
The driving force for passive, uncoupled solute transport across a membrane
What is the electrochemical potential energy difference?
Dimensionless number that determines whether blood flow is with laminar or turbulent
What is Reynold number?
Re = 2rvp/n
r= radius; v=velocity; n = viscosity; p = density of fluid
laminar flow less than 2000
turbulent flow greater than 3000
Spinal cord innervation of the diaphragm
What are C3-C5(phrenic nerve)?
Henderson-Hasselbach Equation
What is pH = pK + log(HCO3/CO2)?
Presidents born in the state of Virginia
President born in Virginia, though elected as president after serving as US representative and senator from Ohio.
Who are Ulysses Grant(18), Rutherford Hayes,(19) James Garfield(20), Benjamin Harrison(23), William McKinley(25), William Taft27), and Warren Harding(29)?
Who is William Henry Harrison(9)