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hypo-osmolality

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hypo-osmolality [hi″po-oz″mo-lal´……ĭ-te]
a decrease in the osmolality of the body fluids; body fluid volume increases and solute volumes usually decrease. Symptoms are those of hyponatremia such as cerebral edema with disorientation, focal neurologic deficits, and seizures.
hypo-osmolality
a decrease in the osmolality of the body fluids.
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Such an intervention reduces cerebral edema without risk for osmotic demyelination syndrome as may occur during the rapid correction of chronic hyponatremia, as the prerequisite compensatory adaptation of brain cells to hypo-osmolality has not yet taken place.
Treatment of EAH-induced encephalopathy with hypertonic (3%) saline: ... by Siegel, Arthur J. / AMAA Journal
 
 
 
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