HUMAN BIOLOGY: CONCEPTS - 9780134312729
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Author: Johnson
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Chapter 3, Problem 5AWK
Recently, a young man from Derby in the United Kingdom entered a contest and drank 26 pints of water in a very short time. He later died of complications due to hypotonic hydration, also known as water intoxication. How were his body's cells affected by the excess water, and how might that have contributed to his death?
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