acupressure

English

Etymology

Blend of acupuncture +‎ 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

• Finnish: akupainanta

• Portuguese: acupressão f

an act or instance of applying an acupressure technique

• Finnish: akupainanta

(dated) mode of arresting hemorrhage

• Macedonian: акупресура f (akupresúra)
• Polish: akupresura (pl) f

• Serbo-Croatian: akupresura (sh) f

See also

• acupuncture

Further reading

• acupressure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913