hot-water bag

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Noun1.hot-water bag - a stoppered receptacle (usually made of rubber) that is to be filled with hot water and used for warming a bed or parts of the bodyhot-water bag - a stoppered receptacle (usually made of rubber) that is to be filled with hot water and used for warming a bed or parts of the body
hot-water bottle
receptacle - a container that is used to put or keep things in
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The aim of the present study was to elucidate the mechanism by which hyperthermia applied through a hot-water bag induces subcellular destructive changes including MMTV in the spontaneous mammary tumors in the Strong A inbred strain of mice.
Our findings strongly suggest that hyperthermia delivered through a hot-water bag can be safely used to destroy certain human malignant tumors, including cervical cancer and head and neck squamous cell carcinomas.
Effects of hyperthermia on the ultrastructure of spontaneous mouse mammary tumors with reference to viral dysmorphogenesis
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