Table 3.

Body Water Distribution Amongst Tissues.

Tissue	Weight (kg)	% Body Weight	Water Content Fraction	ECF Fraction	ECF Water (L)	ICF Water (L)	Total Water (L)
Blood	5.5	7.53	0.80	0.63	2.79	1.61	4.40
	4.1	6.83		0.68	2.23	1.05	3.28
Skeletal Muscle	28.5	39.04	0.76	0.16	3.47	18.19	21.66
	18	30			2.19	11.49	13.68
Skin	4.3	5.89	0.72	0.95	2.94	0.15	3.10
	3	5			2.05	0.11	2.16
Brain & Viscera	6	8.22	0.72	0.35	1.51	2.81	4.32
	5.4	9			1.36	2.53	3.89
Bone	5.75	7.88	0.15	1.00	0.86	0.00	0.86
	4.2	7			0.63		0.63
Active Marrow	1.17	1.6	0.80	0.20	0.19	0.75	0.94
	0.9	1.5			0.14	0.58	0.72
Inactive Marrow	2.48	3.4	0.15	0.80	0.30	0.07	0.37
	1.8	3			0.22	0.05	0.27
Connective Tissue	3.7	5.07	0.80	1.00	2.96	0.00	2.96
	3	5			2.4		2.4
Transcellular	1.1	1.51	0.95	1.00	1.05	0.00	1.05
	1.1	1.83
Adipose Tissue	14.5	19.86	0.14	0.80	1.62	0.41	2.03
	18.5	30.83	0.13	0.85	1.97	0.35	2.31
Total	73				17.69	24	41.68
	60				14.23	16.15	30.38
% of TBW					42.43	57.57
					46.84	53.16
% of Body Weight							57.1
							50.6

Values for an average adult man are represented in blue, while those for an average woman are in red. Values in black are common to both sexes. Adapted from references ^{17, 16, 18, 2,4,14, 1,184, 185, 186, 25, 26}, and> ¹⁰