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Reduction of body water in theory may arise from reduction in intake or increase in loss. In practice reduction in intake is complicated by continuing water loss, leading to increasing dryness or dessication. Dehydration is an appropriate term for the description of water deficiency, but this term is often used to describe the much commoner situation of loss of both water and sodium. The term water loss syndrome avoids this source of confusion.
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McGeown, M.G. (1983). Water loss syndrome. In: Clinical Management of Electrolyte Disorders. Developments in Critical Care Medicine and Anaesthesiology, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6699-4_9
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