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What's the difference between the extravascular fluid and the extra cellular fluid :/

Can someone explain this in simple terms PLS


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Extravascular is a subtype of extra cellular fluid.
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Extravascular is fluid outside of the vessels whereas extracellular is fluid outside of the cell. Swelling could be a result of either or both. Causes of extravascular fluid increase could be due to injury/ trauma to a blood vessel whereas causes of an increase in extracellular fluid could be due to alterations in the body osmotic balance :smile: hope that helps

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Hi

I've moved your thread to the biology study help sub-forum, as that is the most appropriate place for it. The forum you posted it in is for discussions about studying these courses at university.
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Extra vascular fluid could be, for example, the smaller molecules in blood plasma that are pushed out of the capillary/venule due to the pressure being exerted on them. It is by definition the fluid that is outside the vascular system (I suppose there are added constraints, one wouldn't classify tap water as extravascular just because it isn't in the vascular system) with the caveat maybe being that it was previously inside the vascular system.

Extracellular fluid is the fluid outside and surrounding cells. Again, probably fluid that came from a cell and exited. This could be due to surrounding osmotic pressures such as a cell finding itself in a higher than usual salt concentration so pumps out fluid, hence becoming extracellular fluid.
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Can someone explain this in simple terms PLS


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Extra-cellular fluid is all fluid in the body that is outside of the cells. The fluid in blood vessels (vascular fluid) is thus a type of extra-cellular fluid.

Extra-vascular fluid is the extra-cellular fluid excluding the fluid present in the blood vessels.

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