Flu - vomiting - blood pH

While visiting your family, you come down with a severe case of stomach flu. You begin vomiting and continue vomiting for more than a day, unable to keep any food or fluids down. How would you expect your condition to affect your blood pH and why would this change occur? How would it affect your urine pH and why would this change occur? What would occur to your breathing rate. and why would this occur?

practice critical thinking question

Describe the effects of both the loss and gain of sodium in the ECF. What would the effect be on the ICF? Why would this effect occur?

Need to know why buccal cavity is not an internal body cavity.

The mouth, or buccal cavity, and its extension, which stretches through the body to the anus, is not listed as an internal body cavity. Why?

Heirarchy of anatomical organization of the kidneys

I need to correlate the microscopic sturctures (cells) to the gross stuctures of the kidneys. I need to integrate into the response the heirarchy of anatomical organization from the cellular level to the organ level of the kidneys. Also, describe how the function of the kidneys correlates to the anatomical structures described.

Structure and Definition of the Skin

1. How can the skin be both a membrane and an organ? Please be very specific. 2. Also, what are fibers in the dermis produced by?