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  Encyclopedia: Caldarium
The cp-genome of C. caldarium cannot be readily aligned with that of Porphyra purpurea, a multicellular red alga, or Guillardia theta due to a displacement of a region of the cp-genome.
In the red alga Cyanidium caldarium and in the Chrysophyte Ochromonas danica a clear dichotomy was observed: as in higher plants, sterols were formed via the MVA route, whereas chloroplast isoprenoids (phytol in Cy.
Graffiti on the parapets of the pools indicate that caldarium 2 remained in use until at least the sixth century A.D. and that it was then frequented by a predominantly Christian population.
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 Caldarium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Caldarium (also called a Calidarium, Cella Caldaria or Cella Coctilium) was a hot room with a hot plunge bath, used in a Roman bath Complex.
In the caldarium there would be a bath (alveus, piscina calida or solium) of hot water sunk into the floor and there was sometimes even a laconicum - a hot, dry area for inducing sweating.
In modern gyms and spas caldarium’s consist of a room with a hot floor.
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 Medical Spa treatments include water, massage therapy, mud packs.
The floor and walls in the caldarium would have been too hot to touch and Romans would have had to wear thick-soled sandals to stop feet from burning.
Having had an oil massage in the tepidarium, Romans would move to the caldarium to sweat out the dirt from their skin before returning to the tepidarium and then the frigidarium to close their pores and freshen up.
Nowadays, a caldarium is usually just a hot room (without a bath) and often uses moist heat to differentiate it from the laconium, which is a dry heat room.
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 LACONIA (PELOPONNESE) - LoveToKnow Article on LACONIA (PELOPONNESE)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Hame Laconia was first applied in New England to the region granted in 1629 to Mason and Gorges (see MASON, JOHN).
balneum, bath), the dry sweating room of the Roman thermae, contiguous to the caldarium or hot room.
The name was given to it as being the only form of warm bath that the Spartans admitted.
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 Masada
South of the Northern Palace was a large bath house built in traditional Roman style, with four rooms and a court.
The largest room, the caldarium (hot room) had a hypocaust (heating room) beneath it, and its floor stood on about 200 tiny brick columns, that were found well preserved.
The walls were faced with perforated clay pipes through which an adjacent furnace drove hot air; several pipes have survived.
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