Meaning

2 senses

  1. A hydrotherapeutic bath taken in a sitting position.

    a bathtub in which your buttocks and hips are immersed as if you were sitting in a chair and you bathe in a sitting position

  2. A bathing device which allows immersion of the buttocks and pelvis up to the hips, while sitting in the device

Origin

Partial calque of German Sitzbad (“idem.”, literally “sit bath”), from Sitz (“seat”) + Bad

Partial calque of German Sitzbad (“idem.”, literally “sit bath”), from Sitz (“seat”) + Bad (“bath”), from sitzen (“to sit”).

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Forms

plural: sitz baths

Synonyms

2 synonyms
hip bathsitz
Close in meaning
  • a bathtub in which your buttocks and hips are immersed as if you were sitting in a chair and you bathe in a sitting position:hip bath

Word family

1 related words
Derivedsitz

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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