blood plasma
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Blood plasma is the yellowish liquid part of your blood that carries water, nutrients, proteins, and other substances throughout your body. It matters because it keeps your blood cells suspended and circulating, and delivers essential materials to your organs and tissues while removing waste products.
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Blood plasma is a light amber-colored liquid component of blood in which blood cells are absent, but which contains proteins and other constituents of whole blood in suspension. It makes up about 55% of the body's total blood volume. It is the intravascular part of extracellular fluid (all body fluid outside cells). It is mostly water (up to 95% by volume), and contains important dissolved proteins (6–8%; e.g., serum albumins, globulins, and fibrinogen), glucose, clotting factors, electrolytes (Na , Ca , Mg , HCO3, Cl , etc.), hormones, carbon dioxide (plasma being the main medium for excretory product transportation), and oxygen. It plays a vital role in an intravascular osmotic effect that keeps electrolyte concentration balanced and protects the body from infection and other blood-related disorders.