Osmosis
All these problems had to do with people whose blood composition changed, so their water balance between cells and blood was altered.
But osmosis can also control water movement into and out of other spaces in the body.
The GI tract is a perfect example.
A woman just ate a big meal and filled her GI tract up with food (solutes).
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Click on the correct answer to each of the following: Her
intestinal contents become Her intestinal contents Her blood volume |
to
her blood
her
blood