| bathmotropic | Influencing nervous and muscular irritability in response to stimuli. Origin: G. Bathmos, threshold, + trope, a turning (05 Mar 2000) |
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| batho- | Depth. See: bathy-. Origin: G. Bathos, depth (05 Mar 2000) |
| bathochromic | Denoting the shift of an absorption spectrum maximum to a longer wavelength. Origin: batho-+ G. Chroma, colour (05 Mar 2000) |
| bathoflore | An atom or group of atoms that, by its presence in a molecule, shifts the latter's fluorescent radiation in the direction of longer wavelength, or reduces the fluorescence. Compare: auxoflore. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bathophobia | <psychology> Morbid fear of deep places or of looking into them. Origin: G. Bathos, depth, + phobos, fear (05 Mar 2000) |
| baths | The immersion or washing of the body or any of its parts in water or other medium for cleansing or medical treatment. It includes bathing for personal hygiene as well as for medical purposes with the addition of therapeutic agents, such as alkalines, antiseptics, oil, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| baths, finnish | Sweat baths given in an enclosed steamy room. Hyperaemia of the skin is increased by beating with twigs, and the bath is followed by a cold plunge. (12 Dec 1998) |
| bathy- | Depth. See: batho-. Origin: G. Bathys, deep (05 Mar 2000) |
| bathyanesthesia | Loss of deep sensibility, i.e., from muscles, ligaments, tendons, bones, and joints. Origin: G. Bathys, deep, + an-priv. + aisthesis, sensation (05 Mar 2000) |
| bathybius | <zoology> A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not of organic, origin. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Deep + life. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bathycardia | A condition in which the heart occupies a lower position than normal but is fixed there, as distinguished from cardioptosia. Origin: G. Bathys, deep, + kardia, heart (05 Mar 2000) |
| bathyesthesia | General term for all sensation from the tissues beneath the skin, i.e., muscles, ligaments, tendons, bones and joints. See: myesthesia. Synonym: deep sensibility. Origin: G. Bathys, deep, + aisthesis, sensation (05 Mar 2000) |
| bathygastry | Synonym: gastroptosis. Origin: G. Bathys, deep, + gaster, stomach (05 Mar 2000) |
| bathyhyperesthesia | Exaggerated sensitiveness deep structures, e.g., muscular tissue. Origin: G. Bathys, deep, + hyper, above, + aisthesis, sensation (05 Mar 2000) |
| bathyhypesthesia | Impairment of sensation in the structures beneath the skin, e.g., muscle tissue. Origin: G. Bathys, deep, + hypo, under, + aisthesis, sensation (05 Mar 2000) |