(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.
Litre
Definition:
(n.) A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimeter, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 American pints, or 1.76 English pints.
(n.) Same as Liter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The amount of 15N incorporated into the proteins in 1 litre plasma attained up to 3% of the given dose.
(2) If bitter, pour it out and measure 1.4 litres of water.
(3) During the growth of Azotobacter vinelandii in batch culture in Burk's 2% glucose medium supplemented with 50 mg EDTA per litre, water-insoluble capsular polysaccaride material accumulated in cultures prior to the appearance of water-soluble polysaccharide in the culture medium.
(4) The resulting error signal controlled the infusion rates of a concentrated potassium chloride solution (50 or 200 mmol litre-1) and a solution of 50% glucose with insulin 200 u litre-1.
(5) Disopyramide 5 X 10(-5) - 10(-3) mol litre-1 produced a concentration-dependent reduction of twitch amplitude in the indirectly stimulated chick biventer cervicis preparation, but greater concentrations were required to reduce twitches elicited directly in the presence of erabutoxin-b 1 microgram ml-1.
(6) In humans, clinically relevant plasma concentrations of propofol have been reported to be 1-5 x 10(-5) mol litre-1, 97-99% of which is bound to plasma proteins.
(7) Tesco, the UK’s biggest petrol retailer with 499 outlets and more than 16% market share, cut petrol and diesel by 1p a litre at all of its petrol stations from lunchtime on Thursday.
(8) A mixture of SNP 1 mmol litre-1 and glutathione (GSH) 1 mmol litre-1 inhibited the oxygen uptake more markedly (by 75.9%).
(9) Never leave a tap dripping - it can waste up to four litres a day.
(10) A method for processing 3 litres of human plasma for the purification of phosphatidylcholine-cholesterol acyltransferase is described.
(11) We have compared an alternative breathing system for preoxygenation comprising a Hudson face mask with high oxygen inflow (48 litre min-1) and a Mapleson A breathing system (100 ml kg-1 min-1).
(12) We also examined the effects of the infusion of two litres of dialysate on airways resistance (Raw) using total body plethysmography and on arterial blood gasses.
(13) Overall, 86% of the volumes filtered per filter were in excess of 6 litres.
(14) The code specifies that products containing more than 150mg caffeine per litre must carry the warning: "Not suitable for children, pregnant women and persons sensitive to caffeine."
(15) The time required to empty a one litre bag of Ringer's Lactate from a 1.0 meter vertical drop was measured while using four different IV catheters (9.5, 10, 14 and 16 gauge), and the flow rates calculated.
(16) In many communities the poor pay 15 cents (9p) per litre for drinking water.
(17) Apomorphine showed a high total plasma clearance (165-207 ml min-1 kg-1) and, despite a relatively large volume of distribution (3.4-4.1 litre kg-1), a biological half-life of about 14 min was obtained irrespective of route of administration.
(18) A single trained subject sat in a body plethysmograph to measure ventilation and breathed at a constant rate of 15 per minute at three different tidal volumes, of approximately 0.3, 0.6, and 1.2 litres, from the mouthpiece in the plethysmograph.
(19) Farmers were paid an average 23.66p per litre for milk in June, down 10% since January and 25% lower than a year ago, according to AHDB Dairy , the British dairy organisation.
(20) Intensive training can lead to extraordinary levels of cardiac performance as shown in a world-class athlete who during peak exercise attained a heart rate of 210, an ejection fraction of 97%, and a cardiac output of 56 litres per minute.