Crossword clues for dehydration
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dehydration \De`hy*dra"tion\, n. (Chem.) The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.
Wiktionary
n. The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.
WordNet
n. dryness resulting from the removal of water [syn: desiccation]
depletion of bodily fluids
the process of extracting moisture [syn: desiccation, drying up, evaporation]
Wikipedia
Dehydration refers to a deficit of total body water, with an accompanying disruption of metabolic processes. Dehydration is also a cause for hypernatremia. The term dehydration is distinct from hypovolemia (loss of blood volume, particularly plasma).
Dehydration occurs when free water loss exceeds free water intake, usually due to exercise or disease, but also due to high environmental temperature. Mild dehydration can be also be caused by immersion diuresis and this may increase risk of decompression sickness in divers. Most people can tolerate a three to four percent decrease in total body water without difficulty or adverse health effects. A five to eight percent decrease can cause fatigue and dizziness. Loss of over ten percent of total body water can cause physical and mental deterioration, accompanied by severe thirst. Death occurs at a loss of between fifteen and twenty-five percent of the body water. Mild dehydration is characterized by thirst and general discomfort and is usually resolved with oral rehydration.
Dehydration is the excessive loss of body water.
Dehydration or water loss may also refer to other cases of water loss/removal (sometimes colloquially):
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Drying, the removal of water through chemical or physical means
- Desiccation, sometimes synonymous with drying, sometimes an extreme form of it
- Drying (food), food preservation by dehydration
- Dehydration reaction, a chemical reaction
- Dryness (medical) of skin, etc.
Usage examples of "dehydration".
Stretching slows muscle dehydration by stimulating the natural tissue lubricants.
Most people are oblivious to the onset of dehydration, due in part to the lack of thirst.
Finally, when dehydration becomes severe and you lose too much water, your life can be threatened.
If dehydration worsens, you may get low blood pressure, dizziness, rapid heart rate, and kidney failure, or even death.
With prolonged dehydration, brain cells begin to shrink, and many of their functions begin to be lost, such as the transport system that delivers neurotransmitters to nerve endings.
Medical records said she was suffering from exhaustion and dehydration, but responding to sugar and salt treatment.
I was not suffering yet from dehydration, so the liquid was pale in colour.
But Jeremy would have perished from starvation or dehydration, and sometimes even a comatose patient might suffer pain from such a cruel death, depending on the depth of his stupor.
What she had just suffered was a diabetic coma, or full-blown ketoacidosis, complicated by severe dehydration.
Faulwell, Abramowitz, and Lense all drooped languidly at their consoles, slowly losing their individual struggles against heat stroke and dehydration.
Now Brad could clearly see that the in sectile limbs of the body were severely attenuated human arms and legs, that the sunken body cavity and strangely shriveled genitals were the products of acute emaciation, that the fright-mask face was the result of dehydration without decay.
The individual particles were extremely small, subject to damage from cosmic rays, photochemical decay, dehydration of their protein chains, and other environmental factors.
The predatorial plant would intravenously pump a euphoric hallucinogen into her system, making her orgasm over and over again, providing them with the juice they dined on, until she literally died of pleasure and dehydration.
The cellular water would dialyze into the blood and kill the creature by simple dehydration.
The immediate danger of all the diarrhetic diseases was simple dehydration.