acupressure

English

Etymology

Blend of acupuncture +‎ pressure; surface analysis, acu- +‎ pressure.

Noun

acupressure (countable and uncountable, plural acupressures)

1. (uncountable) An alternative medicine technique, derived from acupuncture, in which physical pressure is applied to acupoints.
2. (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.

3. (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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 指壓／指压 (zh) (zhǐyā), 指压 (zh) (zhǐyā)

• Finnish: akupainanta
• Japanese: 指圧 (ja) (しあつ, shiatsu)
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• Korean: 지압(指壓) (ko) (jiap)
• Polish: akupresura (pl) f
• Portuguese: acupressão f
• Russian: акупрессу́ра (ru) f (akupressúra)

an act or instance of applying an acupressure technique

• Chinese:

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• Finnish: akupainanta

(dated) mode of arresting hemorrhage

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: akupainanta
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• Macedonian: акупресу́ра f (akupresúra)
• Serbo-Croatian: akupresura (sh) f

See also

• acupuncture
• circumclusion
• retroclusion
• torsoclusion

Further reading

• “acupressure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.