acupressure

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.kjuˌpɹɛʃ.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.kjuˌpɹɛʃ.ɚ/, /ˈæ.kjə-/

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^[1]:

     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.

Derived terms

• acupressurist

Translations

alternative medicine technique in which physical pressure is applied to acupoints

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 指壓 / 指压 (zh) (zhǐyā)

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

an act or instance of applying an acupressure technique

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 指壓 / 指压 (zh) (zhǐyā)

• Finnish: akupainanta

(dated) mode of arresting hemorrhage

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 止血縫針法 / 止血缝针法 (zhǐxuè féngzhēn fǎ)

• Finnish: akupainanta
• 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.