ab·lu·tion

(ab-lū'shŭn),

An act of washing or bathing.

[L. ablutio, washing off, cleansing]

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ablution

Cleansing, bathing; no longer used in a medical context.

ab·lu·tion

(ă-blū'shŭn)

Washing of one's body or part of it.

[L. ablutio, washing off, cleansing]

Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

ab·lu·tion

(ă-blū'shŭn)

An act of washing or bathing.

[L. ablutio, washing off, cleansing]

Medical Dictionary for the Dental Professions © Farlex 2012

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Agaat then complies with Milla's ablutionary instruction in order to get her treat.

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It is the first restroom to be built in the riverside park in three decades, and as well as the usual ablutionary facilities it has a shower and drinking fountain, as the park is enthusiastically used by joggers and cyclists.

Corten contortion: the humble public convenience gets a stylish reworking

500) and the early medieval period and in enclosures near fire temple compounds during the late medieval and modern periods--although purification rules and ablutionary activities now are declining with Zoroastrian communities in Iran, India, and elsewhere.

To cut off, purify, and make whole: historiographical and ecclesiastical conceptions of ritual space

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