What is the importance of water content of the body?
3. Compartments In The Body Contains Fluid
- Intracellular: There are 75 trillion cells in the body. There is fluid inside each cell of the body
- Extracellular: Fluid outside the cell
- Interstitial Fluid: found between the cells contains lymph
- Intravascular: found in the blood vessels (Blood volume 5L) outside the RBC i is called plasma (3L)
- Transcellular
- Cerebrospinal fluid (cranial cavity)
- Pleural Fluid (pleural cavity)
- Peritoneal fluid (peritoneal cavity)
- Synovial fluids (synovial cavity in bone joints)