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Does dehydration cause blood to become hypotonic (lower osmolarity) or hypertonic (higher osmolarity)?

anatomy and physiology please help me w this :( need it now own words please.

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dehydration is the lack of water. hypotonic means a lower concentration of solutes. hypertonic is a lower concentration of water. so i think that the answer is hypertonic because it is a lower concentration of water and dehydration means lack of water.
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