"There are over twenty bodily fluids present in the human body"

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“…and I am proud to say I have tasted all of them.”

Thus spoke Harry Dean Stanton in Young Doctors in Love.

Let’s list them (I’ll do the easy ones):

  1. Blood
  2. Saliva
  3. Sweat
  4. Urine
  5. Feces
  6. Semen
  7. Vaginal secretions
  8. Bile
  9. Stomach acid
  10. Tears
  11. Snot
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Breastmilk.

3

The Melancholic Humor

4

Earwax

5

Spinal fluid

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  1. Earwax (as it’s produced or, more likely, softened by sweat/saliva/whatever)

–G?
:frowning: Ninja’d by the Flywheel!

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Well, fine then. :mad:
Is placental fluid just a mixture of stuff already listed?

Amniotic fluid.
Intracellular fluid (the stuff all those organelles are floating in).

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Lymph

Vitreous humor

Colonic mucus

pancreatic secretions

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Pus

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If you separate out blood you get plasma or serum (depending on the method of separation) and the red blood cells. You can separate even further and get cryoprecipitate but that comes from the plasma so maybe it doesn’t count as another fluid?

And I was going to say Lymph, too, but on preview I see I was ninja’d by Qadgop.

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Beer.

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Or going the other way, throw someone in a giant blender, and it will all comes out one homgenous fluid.

So I say there’s only one fluid in the human body: “corpse-slurry”

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Sure, you can do that if you get yourself a Corpse-O-Matic '76!
drinks
Wow, that’s terrific corpse!

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Synovial fluid. The stuff that pops when you crack your knuckles.

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Coors Light was covered with ‘Urine’ at least.

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So to tabulate our results so far:

  1. Blood (plasma & serum)
  2. Saliva
  3. Sweat
  4. Urine
  5. Feces
  6. Semen
  7. Vaginal secretions
  8. Bile
  9. Stomach acid (Gastic acid)
  10. Tears
  11. Snot (Mucus)
  12. Breast milk
  13. Earwax (Cerumen)
  14. Spinal fluid (Cerebrospinal fluid)
  15. Placental fluid
  16. Amniotic fluid
  17. Intracellular fluid (Cytosol)
  18. Lymph
  19. Vitreous humor
  20. Colonic mucus
  21. Pancreatic secretions
  22. Pus
  23. Synovial fluid

plus I checked Wiki and got a few more:

  1. Aqueous humor
  2. Endolymph
  3. Perilymph
  4. Sebum
  5. Interstitial fluid (Peritoneal fluid, Pleural fluid, Pericardial fluid etc.)
  6. Female ejaculate
  7. Chyle
  8. Chyme
  9. Rheum
  10. Sputum
  11. Vomit

And of these I’ve only tasted about 8. And you?

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Really? I think pretty much everyone has tasted blood, saliva, sweat, bile, stomach acid, snot, tears, pus ( from biting a too hot pizza slice and getting blisters in your mouth) and most people have probably tasted breastmilk, even if they don’t remember it. That’s ten right there.

And depending on your sexual orientation, most people have probably tasted some combination of semen, vaginal secretions and female ejaculate.

Stuff like intracellular fluid is kinda hard to say. I’ve certainly eaten things of which it was a component, but I couldn’t really tell you if I “tasted” it or not.

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Your are right. I forgot that I was breast fed!

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A lot of these are just combinations of the others. Vomit, for instance, is digestive juices (already listed) mixed with ingested food (and if we count that as a bodily fluid, then anything we drink is one).

But as a physicist, I’m going to add carbon dioxide. It’s a fluid, it’s produced by the body, and it’s always found within the body to some degree, which I think qualifies it to be called a “bodily fluid”.

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“It tastes like burning!”