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Hypotonic solutions contain a dissolved solute concentration which is lower than that of inside the cell. Recall that normal saline (NS) is 0.9% sodium chloride, weight/volume (90mg/100mL). A hypotonic solution would have less than 0.9% (or less than 90mg/100mL). A typical hypotonic solution used in hospitals is 1/2 NS, or in certain circumstances, 1/4NS (which pharmacists usually round to 0.3% NaCl).
To think about it biologically, if you were to drop a red blood cell into a hypotonic solution, the cell would engorge with water because its salt concentration is much higher than that of the surrounding environment.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 16y agoA solution that causes cells to increase their fluid intake.
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∙ 11y agoHaving a greater degree of tone or tension... or Having a higher osmotic pressure in a fluid relative to another fluid.
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∙ 14y agocan be used for dehydration
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If a patient has edema swollen hands and feet would you give them hypertonic or hypotonic solution?
a hypertonic solution. that way the water moves out of the cell and into the extracellular space.
Is TPN a hypertonic solution?
hypertonic
How salt effects water?
Since salt water is hypertonic to the plant cell, the water would move into the hypertonic solution (extracellular) and out of the hypotonic plant cell. The cells would lose water and it would die.
What refers to a solution with more molecules outside the cell than inside the cell?
hypertonic solution
A cell is dropped into a solution and the cell swells the solution is?
hypertonic hypertonic
What kind of solution occurs in your mouth when you eat something with salt?
hypertonic solution
What is hypertonic and solution and hypertonic solution mean?
a solution that has a higher osmotic pressure than another solution to which it is compared
If an animal cell shrinks it was probably placed in a . hypotonic solution hypertonic solution isotonic solution?
"hypertonic"
Is regular non-diet pop a hypotonic or a hypertonic solution?
I am pretty sure it is a hypertonic solution.
What term describes the environment outside the cell?
extracellular! it is NOT the cell wall or the cytoplasm!
What TPN solution should burn patients use?
Hypertonic dextrose solution
How are hypertonic solution and hypo tonic Solution related?
A hypertonic solution has the solute greater than the solvent, whereas a hypotonic solution is the reverse.
