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amandaa25
05.05.2020 • 
Medicine

Imagine that you have been drinking a large amount of relatively pure water over the course of the day, enough to drop the osmolarity of your body fluids down from a normal level (300 mOsm) to an abnormally low level (295 mOsm). Soon after this, which of the following statements do you predict will be true? Select ALL that will be true.

A) Following this you will produce urine with a U/P ratio < 1.

B) Following this you will produce hyperosmotic urine.

C) Following this you will temporarily be less thirsty than usual.

D) Following this you will temporarily generate metabolic water at a slower rate than usual.

E) Following this you will temporarily lose water via evaporation across your lung epithelia at a faster rate than usual.

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