What's the difference between bath and lath?

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.

Lath


Definition:

  • (n.) A thin, narrow strip of wood, nailed to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting the tiles, plastering, etc. A corrugated metallic strip or plate is sometimes used.
  • (v. t.) To cover or line with laths.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One had been attached to the first cutting lathe that Optimal had acquired.
  • (2) Through combination with a spherical disc face perpendicular to the axis of rotation, which protrudes only slightly from the hemispherical catheter tip, with a maximum at the center and minimum at the lateral borders, the lathing head has only a slight risk of perforation and no undesired sheering forces (Figures 2a to 2d).
  • (3) Machinable ceramics that can be cut and even lathed have recently been developed in industry.
  • (4) We studied the anterior surfaces of 30 soft contact lenses (10 lathe cut [polished]; 10 spin cast [unpolished], and 10 cast molded [unpolished]) of the same polymer and water content.
  • (5) The results indicate that when dental amalgam alloy is added to the glass ionomer, lathe-cut particles are to be preferred but only in an amount up to 20% by weight.
  • (6) Changes in corneal curvature and subjective refraction were found to occur in some wearers of N & N lathe-cut soft contact lenses.
  • (7) Peripheral swelling was less than central for both lathe cut- and spun cast-type lenses.
  • (8) For clinical application the initial intumescence should be taken into consideration, as well as the donor tissue thickening during its freezing for working on a lathe.
  • (9) Data is presented in respect of 256 restorations of Occlusin and 69 restorations of a conventional lathe cut amalgam.
  • (10) The lenses studied were lathe-cut polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), injection-molded non-UV PMMA, injection-molded UV PMMA, and cast-molded UV PMMA.
  • (11) Measurement of the corrosion rates of three distinctive amalgam alloys (lathe-cut, spherical and dispersed-phase) when immersed in three different electrolytes, including saliva, is reported.
  • (12) The results indicated that early microleakage from alloys of lathe-cut particles was lower than that from alloys of spherical particles in both low-copper and high-copper amalgam restorations.
  • (13) Precise lathing of epikeratoplasty lenticules is difficult to achieve with the cryolathe due to unpredictable expansion of the lathing tools and the corneal tissue during the freezing process.
  • (14) Like, ‘Don’t send us a CD master of the loudest techno music and expect that to be cuttable on a lacquer.’ (The high and low frequencies associated with this type of music can overheat the cutting lathe and cause the mastering machinery to shut down; pushing the process to its limits is the origin of some records being called “hot cuts”.)
  • (15) Often overlooked is the dental laboratory of which particular interest focuses on the lathes used in preparing prosthetic appliances, castings, orthodontic appliances, and surgical stents.
  • (16) A method was developed for lathing corneal tissue without freezing.
  • (17) This paper describes in detail the geometry of the first lathe-cut hydrophilic lens approved by the Federal Drug Administration, the fitting methods utilizing trial lenses, and the results of 100 patients successfully fitted.
  • (18) We adapted a lathe to the production of keratolenses.
  • (19) USA 69, 3643-3647) and the HLP-1 protein (Lathe, R. et al.
  • (20) Three out of 10 eyes (30%) in which injection molded anterior chamber lenses from McGhan were used developed cystoid macular edema, compared to a much lower incidence with the use of lathe-cut anterior chamber lenses from Rayner.

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