| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| sitz bath |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  s ts, zts |
| NOUN: | 1. A bathtub shaped like a chair in which one bathes in a sitting position, immersing only the hips and buttocks. 2. A bath taken in such a tub especially for therapeutic reasons. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Partial translation of German Sitzbad : Sitz, act of sitting (from sitzen, to sit, from Middle High German, from Old High German sizzen; see sed- in Appendix I) + Bad, bath.
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