(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.
Beath
Definition:
(v. t.) To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this paper the authors report two illustrative cases, and discuss the advantages and applications of the Beath technique.
(2) The major goal of pulmonary care in the treatment of the patient with muscular dystrophy is the maintenance of respiratory homeostasis through beathing exercises and training in the use of various breathing aids, thus enabling the patient to lead as active and comfortable a life as possible within the limits imposed by his evolving respiratory problem.
(3) The tachycardia was interrupted by ventricular way with a discharge of beaths high frequency, utilizing a radiofrequency device connected with a exterior programmed stimulation.
(4) The Harris and Beath footprinting technique was used to measure plantar pressure.
(5) Review was performed using a symptomatic scoring system, clinical examination, AP and lateral standing radiographs, and walking foot pressure studies obtained from a Harris-Beath mat.
(6) Rosenfeld and Beath described three clinical types of Se intoxication: acute selenosis, subacute selenosis (i.e., blind staggers type), and chronic selenosis (i.e., alkali disease type).
(7) All patients were assessed 3 to 5 years after operation using an objective scoring system of symptoms, clinical examination, anteroposterior standing radiographs and walking footprints from a Harris Beath mat.
(8) (3H) uridine or (3H) thymidine was administered intraluminally 15 min before beath.
(9) A case is presented in which a Beath pin traveled through the scapula and penetrated the scapulothoracic articulation during arthroscopic Bankart repair.
(10) Ten regularly trained divers with different levels of experience divid a minimum of three consecutive times, holding their beath, reaching depths of 6 m, 9 m, and 12 or 15 m. The water temperature was 28 degrees C. During the ascending part of these dives, bradycardia was observed in all skin-divers.
(11) With the Beath technique a stove-pipe cast is windowed anteriorly and the cast is padded behind the leg, which is then gently wedged into extension.