(v. t.) To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.
(v. t.) To lave; to wet.
(v. t.) To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.
(v. t.) To apply water or some liquid medicament to; as, to bathe the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe one's forehead with camphor.
(v. t.) To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed.
(v. i.) To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths.
(v. i.) To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath.
(v. i.) To bask in the sun.
(n.) The immersion of the body in water; as to take one's usual bathe.
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.
Bather
Definition:
(n.) One who bathes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of nine affected bathers, five showed inflammation of Montgomery's follicles of the breast.
(2) Families picnic between games of crazy golf or volleyball, bathers brave the shallows, children splash in the saltwater lido.
(3) The sauna evokes memories of childhood development, awakening feelings of maternal warmth and paternal power in the bather.
(4) Random samples of the weekly entry of bathers to a swimming pool were examined for tinea pedis and verruca before and at intervals after the supply of individual sachets of foot powder to all bathers.Over three and a half years the overall incidence of tinea pedis decreased from 8.5% to 2.1%, and in adult males it decreased from 21.5% to 6.9%.
(5) 'Hermless, hermless, there's never nae bather fae me, I go to the library, I tak oot a book, and then I go hame for meh tea.'"
(6) A documentary film on Denmark that is shown to immigrants as part of the test for entry should include topless bathers, said Peter Skaarup, the party's foreign affairs spokesman.
(7) It is concluded that sauna bathing involves dangers to the bather's health, which may appear suddenly, without prodromal warning signs.
(8) A 10% random sample of all bathers at a public swimming bath were examined for tinea pedis and verruca.The overall incidence of tinea pedis was 8.5% and of verruca 4.8%.
(9) They waved and shouted at the watching journalists as they passed a little collection of brightly coloured beach tents, used by bathers in peacetime.
(10) Exposure to sauna heat during sauna bathing raises the skin temperature of the bather near the hot pain perception threshold and enhances sympathetic activity.
(11) Lifeguards patrol the beach in the summer and surfers are asked not to come within 100 metres of the tide line, to allow bathers a good stretch of safe water.
(12) But this serene pool allows bathers to enjoy the marine violence without having to interact too much with it.
(13) Once out of the austere sauna, bathers have a shower and sit outside on a little brick wall on the side of the pavement to cool down, drinking and eating.
(14) Only 14 cathers were bitten (through treading on the sea-snake; no bathers were bitten while swimming).
(15) The bathers should be able to vary the humidity to their liking by casting water on the stones heated in or on the sauna oven.
(16) Great white sharks could be regular visitors to the coast by the 2080s, where they could find more bathers enjoying the Mediterranean climate.
(17) Instead there is just one early Bathers composition by him.
(18) Five thousand people were involved in the riot last December on Cronulla beach, which started as a protest to “reclaim the beach” from groups of mainly Lebanese youths who had reportedly intimidated young Australian women bathers and assaulted two volunteer life savers.
(19) The levels of Escherichia coli at a number of beaches was observed to be influenced by tide, and for staphylococci, by bather numbers.
(20) Additional attention should be directed to the bacteriology of the water surface film, which presents a more direct hazard to bathers.