What is a Colloid?

[judy12]

I don't know about colloid..please help to detail for this..

[kkmalaysia]

To make it simple: it is intravenous solution used to expand the blood volume as it contains particles which do not go out from the blood vessels hence keeping more water within blood vessels. Simple example is albumin.

[pachills]

A colloidal system can be expressed as one of these three states(liquid, gas and solid) finely dispersed in another. Any study of chemistry and physics involves three states of matter.

[martinahingis]

colloid is also called oncotic pressure. It is a measure of pressure within the circulatory system proteins in blood plasma. Specific nature of the protein in cells, helping to ensure that the fluids in and out of capillaries is the right amount.