What's the difference between balneology and bath?
Balneology
Definition:
(n.) A treatise on baths; the science of bathing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rehabilitation measures included physical training, terrain cure, balneological procedures.
(2) The authors recommend possibly early balneological treatment in this syndrome.
(3) It was found that a stay in the spa and certain balneological treatments exert a favorable effect on the peripheral blood-flow disorders produced by the local vibration of chain saws.
(4) Dynamic rheographic studies conducted in patients following balneological treatment (nitrogen-thermal or bromiodine baths) revealed positive changes in the qualitative and quantative rheographic parameters indicating normalization or improvement of the peripheral circulation in vibration disease cases.
(5) In stage II the physiotherapy has to be intensified and should be supplemented by special balneologic (bathing) measures and functional splints.
(6) Based on the operation-by-operation analysis of clinical processes related to service and performance of balneologic procedures the preliminary set of clinical devices designed for baths, basins and showers in hospitals and rehabilitation departments is defined in a generalized form.
(7) The authors emphasize the necessity to understand the bath--drug interactions particularly in balneological practice and substantiate the advantage and usefulness of the combination studied in indicated cases.
(8) A single intake of 200-250 ml of the mineral water "Naftusia" may lead to a negative balneological reaction manifested in an increase of pain and activity of the indicator enzyme alanine aminotransferase in the blood.
(9) The control groups consisted of forest workers of similar age and analogous vascular lesions treated in the sanatorium by balneologic methods (mineral salt bath, underwater whirlpool massage) or by pharmacologic agents (Pridazol, Bametan); some of subjects of control groups have been treated only by the climate therapy without other additives.
(10) It is established that 10 sessions of hyperbaric oxygenation in complex with balneologic procedures (Finnish baths) compensate the relative oxygen insufficiency and stimulate the redox processes of the sailor organism when transferring to a new functional level after long voyages.
(11) which are at present still controversial, balneological applications, diet, ethics and nursing home facilities are mentioned.
(12) In addition to technical pre-requisites, which are also important, the following medical ones have to be outlined: early diagnosis and initiation of therapy and the availability of a comprehensive treatment programme embracing drug, surgical, physical and balneological therapies, also as an in-patient.
(13) The obtained results are a trial of using simple immunological tests for evaluation of the effectiveness of balneological treatment.
(14) The applicability of this method was verified in a group of 71 patients treated for various chronic liver lesions at the Research Institute of Balneology.
(15) The state of the regional haemodynamics was studied in 216 patients with vibration disease kept on balneologic therapy.
(16) A load test with a single balneological procedure was used.
(17) Using the following indices: gingival--GI, of gingivorrhoea--GBI, of parodontium--PI and of dental deposit--DI and the measure of the gingival pockets' depth and pocket fluid clinical estimation has been performed in 33 men with parodontium inflammation before and after the set 15 balneological procedures.
(18) Natural studies indicate great contamination of balneological technical systems with P. aeruginosa.
(19) A standardized simple submaximal ergometric load test was used to investigate the effects of active physical training combined with physical-balneological therapy over a 4-week period in 68 hypertensive patients.
(20) Printing preparations from the gingival pockets coloured by means of Shorr's method and secretion of pocket fluid have been estimated in 33 patients before and after balneological treatment.
Bath
Definition:
(n.) The act of exposing the body, or part of the body, for purposes of cleanliness, comfort, health, etc., to water, vapor, hot air, or the like; as, a cold or a hot bath; a medicated bath; a steam bath; a hip bath.
(n.) Water or other liquid for bathing.
(n.) A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water.
(n.) A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments arranged for bathing.
(n.) A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body.
(n.) A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the receptacle holding the solution.
(n.) A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure.
(n.) A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot springs, which has given its name to various objects.
Example Sentences:
(1) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
(2) 'The only way that child would have drowned in the bath is if you were holding her under the water.'
(3) Circular muscle strips from the opossum esophageal body obtained 3-5 cm above the esophagogastric junction were suspended in organ baths for measurement of isometric tension.
(4) The design of a small, inexpensive temperature controlled bath (0.25 ml volume) for electrophysiological studies of isolated cells is described.
(5) A much less romantic example, but one that exists across the country, is being given a bath by a careworker.
(6) The tissue and an aliquot of bathing medium were counted for 3H and 14C content and the values entered into the Wadell and Butler equation.
(7) The effects of drugs applied in the bathing medium on the peristaltic responses were examined.
(8) The brief (3 ms) afterhyperpolarizations that followed such spikes were blocked by intracellular injections of Cs+ or by bath applications of tetraethylammonium.
(9) Replacement of bath Na+ by choline decreased the PD of tracheas by 85% but did not change alveolar PD in the presence or absence of bumetanide.
(10) Antibiotics, X-537A and A23187, were added in micromolar concentrations to selected bathing solutions of skinned frog muscle fibers, and they were shown to affect the production of tension in the skinned fibers.
(11) Similar organisms were found in the water at the site of the accident in Boston, and at ocean bathing beaches on nearby Martha's Vineyard.
(12) We therefore investigated the influence of different carbon dioxide tensions and bicarbonate concentrations on directly measured pH of organ baths aerated with mass-spectrometric analyzed O2-CO2 gases.
(13) The Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (Index of ADL) is a scale whose grades reflect profiles of behavioral levels of six sociobiological functions, namely, bathing, dressing, toileting, transfer, continence, and feeding.
(14) However, when Na+ in the bath was returned to the control level, pHi recovered completely Amiloride (1 mM) in the bath completely inhibited the Na(-)-dependent pHi recovery.
(15) Bath-applied N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), glutamate or quisqualate elicited transient enhancement in these field potentials, followed by a sustained depression reversible on washout.
(16) Fibres bathing in 60 mm-MgCl(2) sea water, free of Ca, did not develop tension with sudden displacements of the membrane potential towards more positive values.
(17) The preparation was mounted in an organ bath and superfused with Tyrode solution containing hemicholinium-3 and eserine.
(18) Cells were then placed in a bath on a microscope stage, superfused and electrically stimulated.
(19) With magnesium-Ringer as external bathing solutions, amiloride and ouabain failed to stimulate oxygen consumption.
(20) Elevation of bath [K] reduced Vm and Vs by 30.3 and 44.5 mV, respectively.