acupressure
Noun
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Noun
acupressure
- (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.
- Portuguese: acupressão
- Russian: акупрессу́ра
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