Hypovolemia

In physiology and medicine, hypovolemia (also hypovolaemia) is a state of decreased blood volume ; more specifically, decrease in volume of blood plasma. It is thus the intravascular component of volume contraction (or loss of blood volume due to things such as hemorrhaging or dehydration), but, as it also is the most essential one, hypovolemia and volume contraction are sometimes used synonymously. It differs from dehydration, which is defined a... more

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