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acupressures

acupressures is the plural of acupressure.

Meaning of acupressure

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.
    • The warm needles of water acted like tiny acupressures on his face.2001, Sherwood Smith, Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict--Auger's Teacher
  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.

Questions about acupressures

What is acupressures the plural of?
Acupressures is the plural of acupressure.

Words near acupressures in the dictionary

  1. acupress
  2. acupressed
  3. acupresses
  4. acupressing
  5. acupressure
  6. acupressures
  7. acupressurist
  8. acupressurists
  9. acupunctuate
  10. acupunctuated
  11. acupunctuates

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