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Sitz bath   /sɪts bæθ/   Listen
Sitz bath

noun
1.
A bathtub in which your buttocks and hips are immersed as if you were sitting in a chair and you bathe in a sitting position.  Synonym: hip bath.






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"Sitz bath" Quotes from Famous Books



... window, and Alfy soon heard sounds, as though the bath were being brought along. It was a somewhat high-backed sitz bath, which had seen ...
— The Island House - A Tale for the Young Folks • F. M. Holmes

... Greenwood (Mrs. Lippincott) as one of the best raconteurs and wittiest women she had known. She was with her at some museum where an immense antique drinking cup was exhibited, large enough for a sitz bath. "A goblet for a Titan," said Harriet. "And the one who drained it would be ...
— Memories and Anecdotes • Kate Sanborn

... "instantanees" develops into a broad grin of satisfaction. Another genuine study of expression both of face and gesture and movement is given in the series where a pailful of cold water is unexpectedly poured over the back of a bather seated in a sitz bath—astonishment, dismay, anger, eagerness to escape, and the reaction to shock are all clearly shown. Darwin's studies on "the expression of the emotions" would have been greatly assisted by such analysis, and the subject might ...
— More Science From an Easy Chair • Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester



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