Water Movement Between the Intracellular Fluid (ICF)compartment and the Extracellular

question 1

Multiple Choice

Water movement between the intracellular fluid (ICF) compartment and the extracellular fluid (ECF) compartment is primarily a function of:

• A) Osmotic forces
• B) Plasma oncotic pressure
• C) Antidiuretic hormone
• D) Hydrostatic forces

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A gauge for the level of deviation or dispersion within a group of quantities.

μ

The symbol used to represent the population mean in statistics.

Frequency Distributions

A statistical tool that organizes data by recording the number of times each value or group of values occurs.

Normal Distributions

A bell-shaped distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.