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SPECIFIC GRAVITY AND OSMOLALITY AS MEASURES OF URINE CONCENTRATION IN THE CALF
Author(s) -
Thornton J. R.,
English P. B.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
australian veterinary journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1751-0813
pISSN - 0005-0423
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-0813.1976.tb02403.x
Subject(s) - medicine , zoology , veterinary medicine , library science , mathematics , physics , biology , computer science
Specific gravity and osmolality were determined for daily urine output from 8 male calves that developed diarrhoea. Both factors increased significantly during diarrhoea. From the correlation (r = 0.724) between them and the range of predicted osmolality values for any particular SG the use of osmolality was confirmed as a precise measure of urine concentration in the calf.