EXTRACELLULAR FLUID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does extracellular fluid mean? 

• EXTRACELLULAR FLUID (noun)
  The noun EXTRACELLULAR FLUID has 1 sense:

1. liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid

  Familiarity information: EXTRACELLULAR FLUID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXTRACELLULAR FLUID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

ECF; extracellular fluid

Context example:

the body normally has about 15 quarts of extracellular fluid

Hypernyms ("extracellular fluid" is a kind of...):

bodily fluid; body fluid; humor; humour; liquid body substance (the liquid parts of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "extracellular fluid"):

interstitial fluid (liquid found between the cells of the body that provides much of the liquid environment of the body)

blood plasma; plasm; plasma (the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended)

 Context examples 

Synthesized in the hypothalamus and stored/released from the posterior lobe of the pituitary, argipressin's primary function is regulating extracellular fluid volume.

(Argipressin, NCI Thesaurus)

One method to attenuate GPCR signaling is by removal of the stimulus from the extracellular fluid.

(Attenuation of GPCR Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This pharmacological action results in excretion of these ions, increased urinary output, and reduction in extracellular fluid.

(Ethacrynic Acid, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Bone Resorption Inhibition involves interference with, or restraint of, absorption and removal of the hard connective tissue that constitutes the vertebrate skeleton and consists of a matrix of collagenous fibers impregnated chiefly with calcium phosphate and calcium carbonate and release of bone salts (phosphorus and, especially, calcium) into the extracellular fluid by osteoclasts, activated by parathyroid hormone.

(Bone Resorption Inhibition, NCI Thesaurus)

Bone Resorption Stimulation involves initiation of absorption and removal of the hard connective tissue that constitutes the vertebrate skeleton and consists of a matrix of collagenous fibers impregnated chiefly with calcium phosphate and calcium carbonate and release of bone salts (phosphorus and, especially, calcium) into the extracellular fluid by osteoclasts, activated by parathyroid hormone.

(Bone Resorption Stimulation, NCI Thesaurus)