TERM: en, body chemistries

September 10, 2001

To find the best Swedish corresponding term, which tests would you say are

included in " body chemistries " ?

The author when first seeing his patients with extreme fatigue, has blood

count, urinalysis, thyroid testing and body chemistries taken. Would

electrolytes plus liver funtion tests cover " body chemistries " ?

TIA

Folke

September 10, 2001

Hi Folke,

At 09/10/2001 01:46 PM +0200, you wrote:

>To find the best Swedish corresponding term, which tests would you say are

>included in " body chemistries " ?

>

>The author when first seeing his patients with extreme fatigue, has blood

>count, urinalysis, thyroid testing and body chemistries taken. Would

>electrolytes plus liver funtion tests cover " body chemistries " ?

In my opinion, " body chemistries " is a vague term that means different

things to different people (see below) and you would have to query the author

to be sure what *he* means by that term. Searching Google using .edu as a

criterion, I did get about 35 hits, but many of those were patient-oriented

documents or a layperson writing about the topic (i.e., my sense is that " body

chemistries " is used more as a layperson's term than a medical one).

In a patient information sheet at

I find:

Sodium, Potassium, Chloride

These are the " electrolytes " or body chemistries

Then at

glucose is included in the definition:

.... processes in tissue. Noninvasive monitoring of basic body chemistries,

such as

glucose concentration, remains a major challenge for optics. The basic

science ...

And also at

[PDF]

CAPD is continuous and avoids the fluctuations of fluid and body chemistries

associated with intermittent HD sessions. This is of particular advantage in

patients with cardiovascular disease and hypertension.

HTH,

Marla

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September 10, 2001