sitz bath
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7.8
- noun
- /ˈsɪts bæθ/
- Specialized
:
baño de asiento
- If you prefer to create a sitz bath per se, compared with what just be considerate, you're at a tried and true healthy posture right away.
Examples
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Go take a warm sitz bath and pop some pain meds.
Blog text (4) -
He set up his wife with a sitz bath in the narrow bathroom.
Fiction book (1995) -
You take a warm sitz bath because it helps for a little while, and you touch yourself in the water as carefully as you can.
Fiction book (1996) -
Now, oh my God, I need to do a sitz bath afterwards.
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Sitting down in a sitz bath cannot simply help keep your anus clean.
Blog text (15) -
The walls of the bathroom were green, and when the door opened and his wife came out from her sitz bath and maneuvered herself into bed, her section of the room was washed with a greenish light.
Fiction book (1995) -
A sitz bath can help relieve pain after childbirth by immersing the hips in warm water.
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To set up a sitz bath, fill the basin with warm water and place it on your toilet seat.
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Doctors often recommend using a sitz bath to soothe discomfort from hemorrhoids.
Synonyms
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6.4
A small bath you sit in that covers only the hips and bottom
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Surface Forms
Morphology
sitz + bath
The noun is compositionally built from 'sitz' (a borrowing meaning 'sit' or 'sitting') + 'bath', so the sense is literally a bath for sitting — a shallow bath that you sit in and thus only immerses the hips/buttocks. A learner who knows the constituent meanings can therefore derive the MWE meaning; the only potential obstacle is that 'sitz' is a borrow and may be unfamiliar, but given its meaning the compound is transparently compositional.
Etymology
Sitz bath: The noun sitz bath comes from the German word sitz, which means 'to sit'. It is a shallow bath that you sit in so only your hips and bottom are in the water. That is why the term means 'a small bath to help healing in that area'.