What's the difference between bathing and swimming?

Bathing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bathe
  • (n.) Act of taking a bath or baths.

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.

Swimming


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swim
  • (a.) That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion.
  • (a.) Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes.
  • (n.) The act of one who swims.
  • (a.) Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming brain.
  • (n.) Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
  • (2) Small and medium fish swim up when stressed, whereas larger fish swim down.
  • (3) All these animals have been taking the same daily swimming training, during 15 days before the injection of labelled molecules.
  • (4) When the organisms are free-swimming this is seen as the reversed locomotion of Jennings' "avoiding reaction."
  • (5) Low concentrations of cercaricides are toxic both for cercariae and parthenites from the liver of mollusks and for freely swimming cercariae.
  • (6) A comparison was made between the Q's estimated by the CO2 rebreathing method during tethered swimming and previously published data on Q determined by the dye-dilution method during free swimming in a flune.
  • (7) The maximal swimming time in the water (33--34 degrees C) with an additional load of 3 per cent of body weight failed to increase after 5 weeks of training in the animals to which dexamethasome was infected.
  • (8) The cardiac TG concentration was back to control levels by the 2nd h after the swim.
  • (9) Further the results of a test under practical conditions in a swimming pool are shown and the possibility to discriminate different types of waters by their chlorine demand under constant-titration.
  • (10) Addition of hydrocortisone, prednisolone and corticosterone into the medium as well as in vivo administration of these increased the adrenaline synthesis in swimming rats and did not alter it in intact rats.
  • (11) We confirmed that swimming activity is induced reversibly following exposure of the nerve cord to 5-HT (50 microM); the half-maximal rate of swimming activity develops in about 15 min.
  • (12) Thirty-eight female Wistar rats were randomly assigned to one of three groups: run-trained (RUN), swim-trained (SWIM) or control (CON).
  • (13) All motoneuron firing during fictive swimming is associated with a tonic depolarization that falls away slowly once firing stops, is increased by hyperpolarizing current, and is reduced by depolarizing current.
  • (14) The chemotactic receptor-transducer proteins of Escherichia coli are responsible for directing the swimming behavior of cells by signaling for either straight swimming or tumbling in response to chemostimuli.
  • (15) Eukaryotic ribosomes were isolated from the cryptobiotic embryos and from the further-developed free-swimming nauplii of the brine shrimp Artemia salina.
  • (16) The purpose of this study was to determine whether a chronic swimming program could reverse the decreased cardiac function and altered myosin biochemistry found in hearts of rats with established renal hypertension.
  • (17) The activity of hexobarbital oxidase in vivo was found to be higher in rats forced to swim regularly (sleeping time studies).
  • (18) An echocardiographic evaluation of 77 members of a championship childhood swim team showed dimensional variations from normal in most athletes.
  • (19) There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, "Morning, boys, how's the water?"
  • (20) VO2 in both styles curvilinearly increased with swimming velocity, and these relationships were well fitted for the regression equation of the second order (Br: y = 3.84625x2 - 1.95914x + 1.310463,r2 = 0.999 (p < 0.05), Fr: y = 3.233446x2 - 2.28136x + 1.611524, r2 = 0.979 (p < 0.05)).