DEHYDRATION

Dehydration

In physiology and medicine, dehydration is the excessive loss of body water, with an accompanying disruption of metabolic processes. It is literally the removal of water from an object; however, in physiological terms, it entails a deficiency of fluid within an organism. Dehydration of skin and mucous membranes can be called medical dryness.

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dehydration

Noun

  1. The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.


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