sitz bath
a chairlike bathtub in which the thighs and hips are immersed in warm water, usually as part of a therapeutic treatment.
the bath so taken.
Origin of sitz bath
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How to use sitz bath in a sentence
Sitz-bath, sitz′-bth, n. a hip-bath: a tub adapted for such.
Waring reports good results in amenorrhœa, adding a handful of the bruised seeds to a hot sitz-bath.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines | T. H. Pardo de TaveraIf a sitz bath-tub is in the house it may be used to great advantage in these cases.
Treatise on the Diseases of Women | Lydia E. PinkhamThe cure will be hastened by employing a sitz-bath (sitting in a tub of hot water, or in a bath-tub).
Treatise on the Diseases of Women | Lydia E. PinkhamA sitz bath is a bath taken in the sitting position with the water reaching to the waist line.
The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) | W. Grant Hague, M.D.
British Dictionary definitions for sitz bath
/ (sɪts, zɪts) /
a bath in which the buttocks and hips are immersed in hot water, esp for therapeutic effects, as after perineal or pelvic surgery
Origin of sitz bath
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