sitzbath

sitzbath
sitz bath (sĭts, zĭts) n.
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.
  [Partial translation of German Sitzbad: Sitz, act of sitting (from sitzen, to sit, from Middle High German, from Old High German sizzen. See sed- + Bad, bath.]

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Universalium. 2010.

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