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Excretory Products and their Elimination
A person who is on a longer hunger strike and is surviving only on water, will have
more sodium in his urine
less amino acids in his urine
more glucose in his blood
less urea in his urine
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more sodium in his urine
The normal concentration of sodium in the blood plasma is 150 mEq/L. If this level drops below 120 mEq/L, the result may be lethargy, coma or death. Unlike deficiencies of other important fluid constituents, the most common cause of this drop in sodium concentration is not a nutritional deficit of sodium, but rather an excess of water.
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Give the term for the neural mechanism causing micturition.
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