THE clinical value of the urinary specific gravity is unchallenged by the thousands who routinely perform it as part of every urinalysis. The claim that it differentiates transudate from exudate in ...

commonly known as relative density, specific gravity is the ratio of density between a particular object and a standardized object such as water and air, acting as a basic comparison. To understand ...

THE specific gravity balance represented in the accompanying illustration was devised by me some ten years ago for the determination of the specific gravity of hand specimens of rocks in the ...

Background Hydration status is one measure used to determine risk of heat illness, such as heat stroke. The most common assessment used is urine specific gravity. However, this test presents inherent ...

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IN Prof. Wyville Thomson's work “The Depths of the Sea” there appears to me a curious discrepancy between two statements of the specific gravity of the sea, to which it may be useful to direct general ...