acupressure
English
Etymology
Blend of acupuncture + pressure?
Noun
acupressure (countable and uncountable, plural acupressures)
- (uncountable) An alternative medicine technique, derived from acupuncture, in which physical pressure is applied to acupoints.
- (countable) An act or instance of applying an acupressure technique.
- 2001, Sherwood Smith, Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict--Auger's Teacher
- The warm needles of water acted like tiny acupressures on his face.
- 2001, Sherwood Smith, Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict--Auger's Teacher
- (dated) A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface.
Translations
alternative medicine technique in which physical pressure is applied to acupoints
an act or instance of applying an acupressure technique
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(dated) mode of arresting hemorrhage
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See also
Further reading
- acupressure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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