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Osmolality
RICHARD M. WARHOL, BA;
ALFRED EICHENHOLZ, MD;
ROBERT O. MULHAUSEN, MD
Arch Intern Med. 1965;116(5):743-749.
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Introduction
THE DETERMINATION of serum and urine osmolality is a technically simple procedure, and if properly applied, is of considerable use in the clinical management of water and electrolyte disturbances. It is the purpose of this paper to review briefly the concept, physiology, and clinical application of osmolality.
Osmotic Pressure and Osmolality
According to Raoult's law, when a solute is added to a solvent, the chemical potential of the solvent molecules is lowered in proportion to the mole fraction of the solute particles present. This is manifested as lowering of the vapor pressure and freezing point and raising of the osmotic pressure and boiling point of the solvent. The phenomenon of osmotic pressure is one of the colligative properties of a solution which depend upon the number of particles dissolved in the solution but not on their mass, charge, or shape.
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Author Affiliations
MINNEAPOLIS
From the Department of Medicine and the Radioisotope Service, Minneapolis Veterans Hospital, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Senior Medical Student (Dr. Warhol) and Assistant Professor of Medicine (Drs. Eichenholz and Mulhausen), University of Minnesota.
Footnotes
Received for publication Nov 24, 1964; accepted April 14, 1965.
Reprint requests to Minneapolis Veterans Hospital, Minneapolis, Minn 55417 (Dr. Eichenholz).
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